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From
the Editorial Team
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7
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Features
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7
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Dignity
and Democracy
by
David Montgomery
America's
preeminent historian looks back at what the labor movement
has wrought over the course of the 20th century..
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Doing
What We Can: The Limits and Achievements of American Labor
Politics
by
Michael Kazin
The
century-old alliance of labor and the Democratic Party has
worked, if not ideally.
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32
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Irritants
or Apologists: A Reply to Michael Kazin
by Nikhil Singh
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39
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The
Difficulty and Promise of Labor and Community Alliances
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42
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Building
Bridges: The Challenge of Organizing Labor in Communities
of Color
by
Robin D. G. Kelley
History
offers labor some important insights into contemporary efforts
at building alliances with communities of color. For starters,
these communities are often far more organized than is implied
by labor's call to "organize the unorganized."
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Overcoming
the Obstacles: Forging Effective Labor-Community Alliances
by
Angela Glover Blackwell and Kalima Rose
With
the wealth gap at it's greatest since the Great Depression,
there exist plenty of reasons for labor and community groups
to join forces. This will not be easy.
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Strategic
Lessons for Labor from Candyland
by
Dan Swinney
As
large employers increasingly choose low-road, speculative,
short-term strategies, labor and community groups can no longer
simply fight for a bigger slice of the pie. They will have
to build more savvy, enduring alliances that can turn businesses
around and offer a new way to run the whole economy.
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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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Books
and the Arts
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C.
Wright Mills: Free Radical
by
Todd Gitlin
Remembering
the paradoxical life of an intellectual rebel against the
American Century.
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90
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Working
with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle Class
Identity
by
Daniel J. Walkowitz
Reviewed
by Richard A. Crowley
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111
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The
Global City, and Globalization and Its Discontents
by
Saskia Sassen
Reviewed
by Wallace Katz
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104
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Poetry
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108
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Letters
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