March 30, 2009 The G-20 summit convening in London on April 2 is preparing to create a quarter trillion dollars of brand new stimulus money to help poor countries battle the global recession. World leaders plan to use a little-known form of global currency to pay the freight, a currency known technically as “Special… Read More »
GLOBAL LABOR’S FORGOTTEN PLAN
March 16, 2009 by Tim Costello, Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled in two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world’s labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public works. It’s a little-known historical might-have-been that could have… Read More »
CAN GREEN JOBS BE GOOD JOBS?
February 16, 2009 At the first Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference, held in Pittsburgh a year ago, advocates of green energy bemoaned their inability to get a modest renewable-energy tax credit through Congress over the opposition of the Bush administration. The idea of addressing the economic, energy and environmental crises through green jobs seemed… Read More »
GLOBALIZATION FROM BELOW IN HARD TIMES
February 6, 2009 The economic globalization that transformed the world at the turn of the century promised, according to its advocates, a glorious vista of prosperity that would provide unprecedented economic growth and raise billions of people out of poverty. In practice it generated personal and national insecurity, growing inequality, and a race to… Read More »
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