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From
the Editorial Team
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Donkey
Days: The State of Labor's Union with the Democratic party
by
David Moberg
If
the election of Al Gore won't scare corporate America, what
will? The Labor movement can help lead the new anti-corporate
coalition.
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Labor's
Mistaken Anti-China Campaign
by
Kent Wong and Elaine Bernard
Labor
chose the wrong battle. The authors argue that the labor movement
once again scapegoated China and let the real corporate enemies
off the hook.
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Why
Labor Made the Right Decision
by
Mark Levinson and Thea Lee
The
authors argue that the campaign to deny China PNTR was a necessary
step in the post-Seattle fight against global corporate domination.
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29
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Immigrant
Nation: Organizing America's Newest Workers
by
Hector Delgado
The
labor movement has taken some dramatic steps in opening its
doors to immigrant workers. But does it have the political
will to invite them in?
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41
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Punishing
Labor: Why Labor Should Oppose the Prison Industrial Complex
by
Cynthia Young
The
AFL-CIO needs to strengthen its opposition to prison labor,
the author argues. Forced labor is rooted in the tradition
of slavery and threatens not just the inmates, but all working
people.
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Responses
to Higher Education, Inc:
Back
to School: Kitty Krupat Reports on NYU's Graduate Student
Union Vote While Julie Kushner and Corey Robin Propose a Labor
Code of Conduct for Universities.
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56
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Dispatches
from the NYU Polls
by
Kitty Krupat
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62
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Campaigning
for a University Code of Conduct
by
Corey Robin and Julie Kushner
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65
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Books
and the Arts:
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65
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Labor
in Film:
La Ciudad, Cradle Will Rock, and The Organizer
by
Dan Georgakas
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51
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Working
Class New York Life: Life and Labor Since World War II by
Joshua Freeman
by
Brooks Bitterman
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76
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Reappraising
Unionism: Review Essay
by
Ruth Needleman
Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism,
and the Freedom Struggle
by
Michael Honey
Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered
by
Jack Metzgar
Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of
American Labor
by
Tom Juravich and Kate Bronfenbrenner
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86
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The
Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret
by
Michael Zweig
Reviewed
by Sumner Rosen
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91
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Financing
the American Dream
by Lendol Calder
Reviewed
by Kimberly Phillips-Fein
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94
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A
Short History of the U.S. Working Class
by
Paul LeBlanc
Why
Unions Matter
by Michael Yates
Reviewed
by Paul Buhle
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Poetry |
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Letters |
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