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In Memoriam
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From the Editorial Team
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From the Arm and Hammer to “The Simpsons”: The Evolution of Working-Class Culture
by Paul Buhle
Can the labor movement’s rich cultural history help inspire its revival?
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An Overture into the Future: The Music of Social Justice
by Joe Uehlein
Popular artists are creating a new music about injustice and the plight of working people. It’s up to labor to build alliances with this musical insurgency.
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What Happened to the Labor Movement’s Sense of Humor? The Rise and Fall of Labor Cartooning
by Gary Huck and Mike Konapacki
Labor cartooning is in trouble, two currently active cartoonists argue. Unless the movement starts supporting its artists, it can not expect to succeed.
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Write and Left: Work and Politics in Fact and Fiction
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Dancing with America: Philip Roth, Writer on the Left
by Marshall Berman
It’s time for the left to reclaim Philip Roth.
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One Step Forward, Two Leaps Back
by Lenora Todaro
Review of Rachel Kranz’s Leaps of Faith
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Biting Off More Than You Can Chew
by Sara Nichols
Review of White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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Labor’s Rose-Colored Glasses
by Dorothy Fennell
Review of Taking History to Heart by Jim Green
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Union Density and Bowling Leagues: Declining Together?
by Dan Clawson
Review of Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
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What’s Playing at the Roxy: CEO’s and Mafioso, Jazzmen and Janitors
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Hollywood Looks at the Business Office
by Phillip Lopate
Hollywood may not often depict workers, but it is fascinated with intrigue around the water cooler and in the executive suite. What is it about the business office that movie makers find so compelling?
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Sticking Together, Falling Apart: “The Sopranos” and The American Moral Order
by Wally Katz
Are “The Sopranos” a window into our collective soul?
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Not Quite All That Jazz
by Bill Moriarity
Review of Ken Burns’ Jazz
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Underground Hollywood
by Herb Boyd
Review of “Secrets of Silicon Valley” and “Bread and Roses”
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That’s Entertainment
Guest edited by Lois Gray
An examination of the unique structure and challenges of the entertainment unions in a dramatically transformed industry.
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Collective Bargaining: Hollywood Style
by Archie Kleingartner
What’s the secret that has allowed U.S. entertainment unions to negotiate good contracts in the face of a powerful industry and public and political opposition
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Entertainment Unions Tune Up for Turbulent Times
by Lois Gray
With the rise of global mega-media conglomerates, the entertainment industry is changing. Those changes pose a threat for the unions that represent the folks behind the show.
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Artists at Work: Pictures, Plays and Poetry From On and Off the Job
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Unseen America
In an exhibit sponsored by SEIU Local 1199’s Bread and Roses, workers were given cameras to record images of their daily lives. These photos are a sample of what they created.
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Why Roses With Our Bread?
by Esther Cohen
What does a union cultural program look like and why does the labor movement need culture anyway?
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Hearts, Hands, and Justice: Playwriting at the National Labor College
by Elise Bryant
As the teacher of history of labor theater and playwriting classes for working people at the George Meany Center/National Labor College, the author has learned to cultivate an environment where workers can write their own labor plays.
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If God Should Speak
By Joyce Faye Russell
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"I Wake Up Praying and Put on My Work Uniform”: Poems
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Letters
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About Our Contributors
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