A Spectacular Success? A Spectacular Success?
On the tenth anniversary of the NAFTA accord, mainstream media accounts have voiced muted disappointment with its relatively meager effects.
Jan 15, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman
Border Justice Border Justice
The call by George W. Bush for major reform of our failed immigration policy was undoubtedly made with election-year eyes fixed on the growing Latino vote.
Jan 15, 2004 / Marc Cooper
Class Warfare Class Warfare
Labor studies programs are under attack by a well-financed right-wing campaign.
Dec 24, 2003 / Feature / David Bacon
Supermarket Showdown Supermarket Showdown
A joyless holiday season faces 70,000 unionized Southern and Central California supermarket workers who have been on strike or locked out since October 11.
Dec 24, 2003 / Marc Cooper
Texas, Inc. Texas, Inc.
Taking privatization to extremes, a new law ends the public sector as we knew it.
Dec 18, 2003 / Feature / Kim Phillips-Fein
Fields of Poison Fields of Poison
While farmworkers are sickened by pesticides, industry writes the rules.
Dec 11, 2003 / Feature / Rebecca Clarren
Wal-Mart’s Big City Blues Wal-Mart’s Big City Blues
The mega-retailer has set its sights on the urban market, but the living-wage movement is putting up a fight.
Nov 24, 2003 / Feature / Dan Levine
Wal-Mart in China Wal-Mart in China
The signs all over the store proclaiming Everyday Low Prices look the same (except that they're printed in Chinese), as do the neatly dressed "associates" patrolling the sellin...
Nov 20, 2003 / Carl Goldstein
Labor Warms to Dean Labor Warms to Dean
Even as the labor leaders who support him are redoubling efforts to secure the Democratic presidential nod for Dick Gephardt, it is becoming increasingly clear that the former ...
Oct 30, 2003 / John Nichols
Scapegoating Illegal Workers Won’t Seal the Borders Scapegoating Illegal Workers Won’t Seal the Borders
As long as firms are willing to hire them, immigrants will come.
Oct 28, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer