April 7, 2000 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher Key Points Unregulated global capitalism has had disastrous effects worldwide and threatens the future of the U.S. economy as well. There are alternatives to unregulated global capitalism. The Global Sustainable Development Resolution spells out a pathway to change. For the past decade, through both… Read More »
WHAT’S NEXT IN DEBATE ON GLOBALIZATION?
March 7, 2000 While both parties and all major political candidates are supporting globalization, events in Seattle and Davos, Switzerland, this year should provide a warning that all is not well in the global economy. Those in business who have profited from globalization ignore at their peril those who have not. From the perspectives… 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 »
RESISTING CONCESSIONS
May 14, 1998 This is the third in a series on rank-and-file labor struggles over the last 25 years While the number of strikes and strikers plummeted during the 1980s and 1990s, most of the major labor struggles that did take place were in resistance to management demands for concessions. Three of the most… Read More »