Issue 267: September/October 2006

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features

• The Rise of Migrant Worker Militancy

  Immanuel Ness

  Recent campaigns in New York City show the way for a revival of the labor movement.

• Oaxaca's Dangerous Teachers

  David Bacon

  Resisting human rights abuses through cross-border organizing.

• Photo Essay: Indigenous Workers in California Fields

  David Bacon

  Cultural ties help Mexican farmworkers survive difficult conditions.

• Unions and Cooperatives: Can They Get Along?

  Dan Bell

  How worker-owned businesses and unions can pursue shared aims.

the regulars

• the short run
• active culture Young Workers United/ Hotel Workers Rising/ Justice at Smithfield
• making sense Kentucky River Threatens to Swamp Labor
• commentBurger King's mocking ad campaign/ Fed transparency
• letter from abroadWar in Lebanon
• up against the wall street journalA Critique of Kristof on Sweatshops
• primerPollin responds to Wolff on class and Wolff responds to Pollin.
• economy in numbersCollapse of the Doha Round of the WTO
• ask dr. dollarThe relationship between unemployment and inflation
• annual index