Labor

Cancer, Chemicals and History Cancer, Chemicals and History

Companies try to discredit the experts.

Jan 20, 2005 / Feature / Jon Wiener

Trading Down Trading Down

In less than five years, the garment industry in poor, war-ravaged Cambodia has more than doubled into a $1.5 billion industry employing 200,000 workers and generating nearly thr...

Dec 22, 2004 / David Moberg

Lessons for Labor Lessons for Labor

What unions did right--and wrong--in the 2004 election.

Dec 9, 2004 / Feature / David Moberg

A Moral Minimum Wage A Moral Minimum Wage

The Democrats should start framing economic justice as a moral issue.

Dec 6, 2004 / Feature / Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele

Take It to the Blue States Take It to the Blue States

Maybe labor should give up on Washington in favor of friendlier terrain.

Nov 11, 2004 / Feature / Thomas Geoghegan

With Friends Like These With Friends Like These

Unlike communism and socialism, trade unionism has rarely inspired published "second thoughts" by embittered apostates.

Nov 4, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early

Union Makes Its Bed Union Makes Its Bed

On September 29 in San Francisco, 4,000 hotel employees--all members of the newly merged union UNITE HERE--walked out on strike or were locked out of their workplaces after their...

Oct 7, 2004 / Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele

Be Our Guests Be Our Guests

Guest workers in the US are routinely punished for asserting their rights.

Sep 9, 2004 / Feature / David Bacon

Will Labor Come Back? Will Labor Come Back?

Labor Day has never been a very inspiring holiday, established as it was by late-nineteenth-century union bosses as a homegrown alternative to May Day, which was viewed as having...

Sep 2, 2004 / Liza Featherstone

Letter From Uganda Letter From Uganda

For two years, journalist Andrew Rice lived in Uganda as a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs.

Aug 12, 2004 / Feature / Andrew Rice

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