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FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD |
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Toward Labor's Renewal
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LABOR'S FUTURE, LABOR'S PAST: CAUTIONARY TALES |
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The New Urban Working Class and Organized Labor
Robin Kelley
Today's workforce is more diverse, demographically and socially, than ever. Organized labor's survival depends on how it relates to this "new" working class. |
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Labor, Liberalism, and Racial Politics in 1950s Detroit
Thomas Sugre
Politics-as-we-know-it, with its blue collar conservatism and "populist" opposition to social programs, owes its identity to the early failure of both New Deal liberalism and organized
labor to confront white racism.
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A "NEW" LABOR POLITICS? |
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Creating a Common Agenda
Gerald Hudson
The executive
vice-president of 1199 NHHSEU talks with Forum editor Mark Levitan about rethinking identity, community, consciousness and the way workers intervene in politics. |
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A Non-Partisan Party: The New Party Model
Dan Cantor and Wade Rathke
The New Party's community-based politics, which concentrates on non-partisan elections, should become labor's political strategy. |
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The Labor Party's Alternative Politics
Sean Sweeney
Why
the Labor Party provides the trade union movement with an independent, multi-corporate political alternative to the reliance on the Democratic Party.
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GLOBALIZATION FROM ABOVE AND BELOW |
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Organizing in the NAFTA enviroment
Kate Bronfenbrenner
Her original research shows how employers are increasingly using plant relocation threats to resist workers who want to organize, and what unions can do about it. |
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Social Unionism and Restructuring
Elaine Bernard and Sid Shniad
Telecommunications industry restructuring is bad news for workers and consumers, but British Columbia telecommunication workers show how social unionism and labor-community unity are the best tools
for resisting the downsizing paradigm. |
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Harder Than You Think
William Milberg and Bruce Elmslie
Those who think international labor standards will stop unfair competition should understand why this goal won't be so easy to achieve.
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BOOKS AND THE ARTS |
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Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front
by Suzanne Gordon
reviewed by California Nurses Association President Kit Costello |
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Baynard Rustin: Troubles I've Seen
by Jervis Anderson
reviewed by UFT Leo Casey |
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Living Inside Our Hope
by Staughton Lynd
reviewed by
long-time student and labor activist Steve Early
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End Notes |
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