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From the Editorial Team
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Labor Comes Out
Guest Edited by Miriam Frank and Desma Holcomb
The U.S. labor movement has finally begun to acknowledge gay workers. Pride at Work, the AFL-CIO’s network of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers, arose from grassroots caucuses started by pioneering workers and their unions across the country. Still, in many sectors, gay and lesbian voices are still struggling to be heard.
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The Fruits of Our Labor: Pride at Work
By Desma Holcomb and Nancy Wohlforth
Pride at Work didn’t just happen: a group of grassroots gay union activists drew on decades of gay rights organizing to forge the AFL-CIO’s gay and lesbian affiliate caucus.
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“THAT’S OUR UNION TOO!” AN INTERVIEW WITH GAY AND LESBIAN ACTIVISTS IN DC 37
By Tamara Jones
Cheryl Minor and Nathaniel Keitt are the co-chairs of Lesbian and Gay Issues Committee (LAGIC) of District Council 37, New York City’s municipal employees union. They discuss the accomplishments and the challenges that lie ahead for LAGIC and groups like it.
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HARD HATTED WOMEN: LESBIANS IN THE BUILDING TRADES
By Miriam Frank
Many lesbians are drawn to the work of the building trades, traditionally a male stronghold. But the old Brotherhoods remain, in large part, a bastion of homophobia and dykebaiting. In their own words, lesbian and straight women in the building trades tell their stories of the obstacles they face as well as the rewards they reap and the allies they find.
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THE GEO-POLITICS OF SEXUAL DIVERSITY: MEASURING PROGRESS IN THE U.S., CANADA AND THE NETHERLANDS
By Gerald Hunt and David Rayside
Why American unions trail their Canadian and Dutch brothers and sisters in protecting the sexual rights of their members.
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THE END OF WHITENESS? REFLECTIONS ON A DEMOGRAPHIC LANDMARK
Guest edited by David Roediger, with Susan Porter Benson, Fernando E. Gapasin, Ajamu Dillahunt and Katie Quan
For the first time in U.S. history, organized labor is no longer majority white and male. David Roediger convenes a group of trade unionists and labor academics to think broadly about the ramifications of this important demographic change.
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REPORT FROM CHARLESTON
The Charleston Five case in South Carolina, where members of an African American Local in the lowest union-density state in the U.S. has been singled out by Republican politicians, is a worrisome attack on workers’ rights to gather, organize, and speak freely.
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THE PARADOX OF VICTORY: SOUTH AFRICA’S UNION MOVEMENT IN CRISIS
By Sakhela Buhlungu
With the end of apartheid and the introduction of democracy, the South African trade union movement finds itself officially included for the first time in the country’s political landscape. But these developments have brought challenges that are debilitating the movement in ways that apartheid couldn’t.
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THE WHITE-COLLAR SWEATSHOP
By Jill Andresky Fraser
Poor benefits and lack of job security in the white-collar world may create unexpected bedfellows for the labor movement. As Americans work longer hours, take their work home more often, and worry about downsizing, are computer programmers, financial analysts, administrative staffers and contingent workers of all sorts particularly ripe for organizing?
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NEW STRATEGIES: DISRUPTING CYBERSPACE: A NEW FRONTIER FOR LABOR ACTIVISM?
By Francis Fox Piven and Richard Cloward
The Internet and new technology provide an exciting possibility for grassroots organization and mobilization. Should cyber-strikes and electronic sabotage become labor’s new frontier?
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BOOKS & THE ARTS:
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Labor in Film
Billy Elliot
Reviewed by Sara Nichols
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Out at Work: Building a Gay-Labor Alliance
Kitty Krupat and Robert McCreery, eds.
University of Minnesota Press, 2001
Reviewed by Collete Hyman
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Growing Prosperity: The Battle for Growth with Equity in the Twenty-first Century
By Barry Bluestone & Bennett Harrison
Houghton Mifflin, 2000
Reviewed by Leonard Rodberg
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Being Black, Living in the Red
By Dalton Conway
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000
Reviewed by Shanna Cohn
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POETRY
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LETTERS
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