Issue 290

Issue 290

Dear Dr. Dollar:

Many times I have read (in writings by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, for example) or heard it said (by President Obama, for example) that technology is eliminating more manufacturing jobs in the United States than rising imports. Is that true? --Kevin Rath, Oakland, Calif.

Arthur MacEwan Sep 1, 2010

Issue 290

We Need a (Green) Jobs Program

Clean-energy investment would promote job growth for a wide swath of the U.S. workforce.

Jeannette Wicks-Lim Sep 1, 2010

Issue 290

The Assault on Labor in Cananea, Mexico

A Case Study in Corporate Shape-Shifting

Anne Fischel and Lin Nelson Sep 1, 2010

Issue 290

Same Output + Fewer Hours = Economic Crisis?

Today's economic crisis is less about the quantity of output than the distribution of income and leisure.

Alejandro Reuss Sep 1, 2010

Issue 290

The Fall and Rise of Hotel Worker Unionism

A review of Restoring the Power of Unions: It Takes A Movement by Julius Getman (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2010).

Steve Early Sep 1, 2010