Issue 267: September/October 2006

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 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