August 5, 1999 A funny thing happened on the way to the New Millenium: the Old Millenium crashed. According to economist Paul Krugman, “Never in the course of economic events — not even in the early years of the Depression — has so large a part of the world economy experienced so devastating a… Read More »
THE GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT RESOLUTION
April 1, 1999 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher For the past decade, through both Republican and Democratic administrations, the U.S. government has promoted a model of free-market global capitalism that it claimed would benefit the great majority of people both at home and abroad. This model has failed. Key Points Unregulated global… Read More »
LABOR UPDATE: ORGANIZING THE NEW WORKFORCE
July 14, 1998 Women, immigrant, and minority workers develop new organizing approaches Traditionally, the majority of American union members have been blue-collar white males. Over the past quarter-century, this group became a smaller and smaller minority in the workforce, while other groups—sometimes dubbed “the new workforce”—grew as a percentage of organized and unorganized workers…. Read More »
RESISTING CONCESSIONS
May 14, 1998 This is the third in a series on rank-and-file labor struggles over the last 25 years While the number of strikes and strikers plummeted during the 1980s and 1990s, most of the major labor struggles that did take place were in resistance to management demands for concessions. Three of the most… Read More »
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