May 29, 2006 The “race to the bottom” is often thought of in terms of cheaper labor attracting jobs from the first world to the third world. But in today’s globalized economy the race to the bottom among third world countries is at least as destructive. A recent book by U.S. labor and women’s… Read More »
SAO PAULO DECLARATION
April 7, 2006 Protecting the environment is a fundamental need of working people; after all, workers must breathe the air, drink the water, depend on energy and other resources, and face the hurricanes, floods, and ecological destruction that result from global warming. But the specific policy objectives of labor movements struggling for jobs and… Read More »
TOMGRAM: BRECHER AND SMITH ON THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY
December 6, 2005 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher Typically, when faced with a problem, the first thing Bush administration officials do is reach for their dictionaries to pretzel and torture words into whatever shape best suits them. Then they declare themselves simply to be following precedent (which turns out, of course, to… Read More »
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE RIGHT TO STRIKE?
June 1, 2005 Review of “If the Workers Took a Notion”: The Right to Strike and American Political Development by Josiah Bartlett Lambert (Cornell University Press, 2005) During the 1970s, the Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded nearly 300 major work stoppages per year. By the 1990s, the number of major strikes had fallen to… Read More »
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