Issue 237: September/October 2001

How to Fund a Fairer Economy—and Reduce Inequality

How can we fund universal childcare, Medicare for All, and a green economy while reducing inequality? A new plan shows how taxing wealth and corporate profits more fairly—and cutting wasteful spending—could pay for a fairer, more prosperous economy.

features

U.S. Banks and the Dirty Money Empire

James Petras
Sweatshops 101

Dara O'rourke

Monitoring Apparel Production Around the World
Labor and Democracy in South Africa

Franco Barchiesi

Where to Now?
Shifting Gears

Thad Williamson

From the RDP to the GEAR Plan
Social-Movement Unionism in South Africa

Ravi Naidoo

A Strategy for Working-Class Solidarity
Dying to Serve You

Gregory F. Delaurier

Violence in the Retail Workplace
Reducing Official Poverty is Not Enough

Robert Cherry

How Reforming the Tax System Can Help
Finland Experiments with a Six-Hour Work Day

Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart

Family Friendly Policy?
Next Steps for the Living-Wage Movement

Chris Tilly
Surplus Value Day

Alejandro Reuss

the regulars

letters
the short run
active cultureWriters Battle Media Companies / College Students Oppose Private Prisons
commentCanadian Dream
making senseRead All About It / A Cracked Foundation for Spain's Economy / Un-FAIR to Small Farmers
in reviewA World, Not a Nation
ask dr. dollarWhat's the difference between GDP and GNP?
economy in numbersGetting Back More Than They Give
primerDemocratizing Brazil

Tax Billionaires, Save Lives: California’s Proposition 40 Is Met With a Heap of Meritless Objections

How to Fund a Fairer Economy—and Reduce Inequality

When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor

Issue 237: September/October 2001

features

the regulars