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From the Editorial Team
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Does That Elephant Bite? Union Alliances with the GOP
By Kim Phillips-Fein
What does the labor movement have in common with the party of crony capitalism?
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Can Labor Bite Back? A Response to Kim Phillips-Fein
By Frances Fox Piven
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The Geography of Organizing
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It Takes A Community: Building Unions From the Outside In
By Jane McAlevey
How Stamford workers, tenants, and parishioner took on Connecticut's Fortune 500.
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New Strategies
Organizing in Cyberspace
By Linda Guyer
IBM Workers confront Big Blue on its home turf.
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Sewing It Up at Hollander: Black and Latino Workers Unite!
By Carolina Bank, Jazmin A. Ochoa, and Cristina Vazquez
Latinos from L.A. and African-Americans from Georgia cross the cultural divide to fight the good fight.
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Building Bridges
By Joseph A. Blum
A photo essay on the building of a bridge named for an ironworker.
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Human Rights and Global Capitalism
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The Rights Revolution
By Nelson Lichtenstein
Are labor rights a species of human rights?
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Sex Work in the Global Economy
By Svati Shah
Should prostitution be a legal prohibition or a regulated occupation? What should the labor movement be doing about it?
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Fallen Warrior
By Rand Wilson
A tribute to Tony Mazzocchi.
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Books and the Arts
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Counting Labor Out
Reviewed by Sean Sweeney
Spoiling for a Fight by Micah Sifry
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Whom Do You Trust?
Reviewed by Bryan Palmer
State of the Union by Nelson Lichtenstein
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Over the Rainbow
Freedom Dreams by Robin D. G. Kelley
Reviewed by J.H. O’Dell
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Ghost Workers
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Reviewed by Paul Simpson
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The Art of Struggle
Insurgent Images by Paul Buhle and Mike Alewitz
Reviewed by Matthew Quest
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Film/Theater
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Messages in the Bottle: Was Samuel Goldwyn Right?
Urinetown, The Musical
Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis
Directed by John Rando
Top Dog/Under Dog
By Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by George C. Wolfe
Reviewed by Jon Fraser
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Let's Make A Deal
Sunshine State directed by John Sayles
Reviewed by Anita Palathinga
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Poetry
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June Jordan’s legacy: Will Labor Accept the Gift?
By Paula Finn
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