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September/October 2000

Issue 231

features

  • The Political Economy of Disablement

    MARTA RUSSELL

  • They Say Give Back, We Say Fight Back

    PETER RACHLEFF

    The legacy of the Hormel strike, fifteen years later.

  • "The Life of the Union"

    An interview with Gladys McKenzie

  • "Workers Who Understand Struggle"

    An interview with Jane Rykunyk

  • The Wal-Mart Trap

    ANNETTE BERNHARDT

  • Profits and Prejudice

    SUZANNE GORDON

    The undervalued work of nursing.

  • Importing Nurses

    A moneymaking venture.

  • What's Wrong with Welfare to Work?

    RANDY ALBELDA

  • An Immodest Proposal

    WOMEN'S COMMITTEE OF 100

  • Josefina Flores

    DAVID BACON

    A veteran of the war in the fields

  • Know-Nothings and Know-It-Alls

    JESSICA COLLINS AND JOHN MILLER

    What's wrong with the hype about globalization.

  • Financing Environmental Moderation in China

    DANIEL DELISI

  • Useful Contacts for Working Women

the regulars

  • the short run
  • primerBorderline Neoliberalism
  • active cultureCorporation Behaving Badly
  • commentTake Our Daughters...Where?
  • making senseThe Story of a Garment Worker
  • in reviewHow Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
  • ask dr. dollarHoratio Alger Lives?
  • economy in numbersCounting Women's Homebased Work