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 »
NEW TACTICS FOR LABOR – PART II
November 14, 2008 In the face of employer attack, the proportion of workers in unions fell from 27 percent in 1978 to 15 percent in 1996. Many changes contributed to declining union membership. The traditional industrial, cultural, and demographic base of the labor movement in white ethnic urban industrial communities was eroded by suburbanization… Read More »
WHY CHINA MATTERS: LABOR RIGHTS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
Why China Matters: Labor Rights in the Era of Globalization, Global Labor Strategies, April 2008.
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