November 26, 2000 In a sense, Connecticut has been a part of the global economy since the first Native American bartered the first beaver pelt to the first visiting European fur trader. The Connecticut colony was settled as part of Britain’s colonial empire; it fought a revolution in large part over issues of international… Read More »
THE ATTACK ON LABOR: SIX REASONS SUSTAINABILITY ACTIVISTS SHOULD CARE
September 20, 2000 Advocates for sustainability, under assault from climate deniers and drill-baby-drillers, are struggling to protect the earth from global warming, desertification, extinction of plants and animals, and other looming threats. Why should they also be concerned about the escalating attack on America’s labor unions?According to a recent New York Times report, many governors and… Read More »
LABOR’S DAY: THE CHALLENGE AHEAD
September 21, 1998 by Tim Costello & Jeremy Brecher Organized labor, awakening from its quarter-century “era of stagnation,” finds itself, Rip Van Winkle-like, in a world transformed. While labor slept, corporations restructured, markets globalized, the postwar “class compromise” broke down, labor-endorsed economic policies failed and the working class itself was reconfigured. Labor will… 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 »
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