Issue 207: September/October 1996

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features

• Labor Has a Party

  By Laura Mcclure

  But No Candidates—Yet

• Unions Get Smart

  By Janice Fine and Richard Locke

  New Tactics for a New Labor Movement

• Union Summer

  Young Activists Discover Unions Aren't History

• Computer Workers Feel the Byte

  By Chris Benner

  Temp Jobs in Silicon Valley

• Immigrants Fight Back

  By Abby Scher

  Workers Centers Lead Where Others Don't

• Putting People First?

  By John Miller

  Clintonomics and Post-Prosperity Capitalism

• The Junk Bond Boss Meets the Ancient Sequoia

  By Sharon Seidenstein

the regulars

• the short run Commercializing Old Faithful
• letters Campaign Spending Puzzles
• active culture Work Slowdown for Workfare
• comment Falling Wages, Failing Policy
• primer Worker Participation: Is It Worth the Price?
• in review The End of Work | The Jobless Future | Job Shift | Half a Job
• economy in numbers The Job Stats—Too Good To Be True