May 11, 2007 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher This post is based on a contribution to the symposium “‘Neither Slavery Nor Involuntary Servitude’: The Thirteenth Amendment and the Contemporary Struggle for Labor’s rights” that appeared in the March, 2007 New Labor Forum. For generations, workers in the United States and… Read More »
GLOBAL WARMING: MARKETS AND DEMOCRACY
May 13, 2007 This is the sixth in GLS’s series on Labor and Global Warming. The danger of global warming was recognized in the 1960s, and by the 1980s its effects were already becoming apparent. Yet significant action to limit it has only just begun. Meanwhile, the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted into… Read More »
THE “STAB IN THE BACK” TRAP”
April 28, 2007 The Democrats and the peace movement are walking into a trap. The Republicans are preparing with Rovian cunning to focus the mind of the public on the question: Who lost Iraq? And they are already giving the answer: The Democrats and the peace movement. Republicans are preparing to dominate future decades… Read More »
THE GLOBAL BATTLE OVER NEW RIGHTS FOR CHINESE WORKERS
April 21, 2007 Editor’s Note: GLS has taken the lead in exposing the role of U.S. corporations in opposing the proposed Chinese labor contract law. Here’s an update on the campaign of the “sweatshop lobby” – and the response by labor worldwide. In a historically unprecedented visit, the influential Chinese scholar and labor law… Read More »
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