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From the Editorial Team
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Features |
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McCarthyism's Ghosts: Anticommunism and American Labor
by Ellen Schrecker
When the labor movement wrestled with McCarthyism,
McCarthyism won and its victory haunts us to this day. |
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Falling in Love Again? Intellectuals and the Labor Movement in Post War America
by Nelson Lichtenstein
After World War II, progressive intellectuals
stopped looking to the labor movement as the prime agent of social change. Now that estrangement might be coming to an end.
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Abolish Sweatshops NOW! |
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Garment Sweatshops, Then and Now
by Daniel Soyer
Although much has changed since the era of the Triangle Fire,
the garment sweatshop in the age of global capitalism is remarkably similar to its notorious ancestor |
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Sweated Labor in Cyberspace
by Andrew Ross
The glamorous world of information technology turns out to be a
sordid arena of sweated labor. Anti-sweatshop tactics developed in the garment industry can be re-deployed in cyber space |
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Down by Law: New Ideas for Defeating Sweatshops
by Cathy Ruckelshaus and Jim Williams
Two legal activists propose new
strategies for attacking the sub-contractors' plague.
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Privatization And Its Discontents
Elliott Sclar, guest editor |
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Beyond the $600 Toilet Seat: How Federal Employees Can Save Taxpayers Billions
by Wiley H. Pearson
Privateers paint public employees as slackers and
ne'er-do-wells that must be put on notice. Public employees unions, if given a chance, save public money by both enhancing productivity gains and minimizing contracting abuses.
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Safety Net for Sale: Private Gatekeepers and Public Dollars
by Cecilia Perry
By contracting out welfare eligibility determination to
for-profit firms, the government has set the poorest and most vulnerable citizens on a direct collision course with some of the world's most powerful corporations. The outcome could be ominous. |
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Been There, Done That: The Privatization of Street Cleaning in Nineteenth Century New York
by Moshe Adler
In 19th Century New York the
establishment of a public sanitation department was the reluctant last resort for a Board of Aldermen that spent almost six decades trying to make privatization work. As today, it was supposed to work with
the right fix, but always disappointed. |
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100 Running on Two Tracks: The Public and Private Provision of Human Services
by Martin D. Hanlon
Privatization may be a new word, but in the human
services there has long been a tradition of both public as well as privately-contracted service provision. In an era of enhanced contracting this two-track system poses challenges to progressive public
policy and public employee unionism. |
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"Restore Teamster Power":
Militancy, Democracy and the IBT
by Thaddeus Russell
Strange as it may seem to some, the ouster of the Ron Carey
Forces from the Marble Palace may present the best opportunity for a renewed militancy in that union. History shows that, under Jimmy Hoffa, Sr. and, more recently, Ron Carey, strong external and internal
opposition to leadership has proven the surest route to labor militancy.
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Books and the Arts |
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From Sinatra to Motown: Labor and Culture in the Cold War
essay by Michael Denninga |
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Running Steel, Running America,
by Judith Stein
reviewed by Adolph Reed |
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Unlikely Partners: Philanthropic Foundations and Labor,
by Richard Magat
reviewed by Thomas Asher |
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Bad Art Makes for Bad Politics, Interview with Walter Bernstein
by Dan Georgakas
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Letters
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