The Student-Labor Union The Student-Labor Union
Only hours into the United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) national conference in Chicago--before half of the participants had even arrived--students were walking the picket li...
Aug 9, 2001 / Feature / Nicholas Woomer
Audacity on Trial Audacity on Trial
Talking union still amounts to a punishable offense in parts of the Old South.
Jul 27, 2001 / Feature / JoAnn Wypijewski
Big Brother’s Corporate Cousin Big Brother’s Corporate Cousin
High-tech workplace surveillance is the hallmark of a new digital Taylorism.
Jul 27, 2001 / Feature / Christian Parenti
Organization Man Organization Man
For HERE president John Wilhelm, building the union always comes first.
Jun 28, 2001 / Feature / David Moberg
Building to Win Building to Win
In the progressive playbook for 2001, labor is called on to assume a leading role.
Jun 21, 2001 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Joe Hill Goes to Harvard Joe Hill Goes to Harvard
On May 8 twenty-three jubilant, grubby Harvard students left the offices of university president Neil Rudenstine after a twenty-one-day sit-in, the longest in Harvard's history. ...
Jun 14, 2001 / Feature / Jane Manners
Yale Bites Unions Yale Bites Unions
For God, country and the ruling class.
Jun 14, 2001 / Feature / Kim Phillips-Fein
Writers Wilt, SAG Sags Writers Wilt, SAG Sags
For the first few months of this year, it looked like Hollywood's unionized writers and actors were about to premiere a new labor strategy. As their conglomerate employers raked i...
May 25, 2001 / Marc Cooper
Prole Like Me Prole Like Me
About every thirty years for the last one hundred, a crusading journalist somewhere has gotten the same idea: Abandon the middle-class literary life (for a brief period), get a re...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early
Labor Fights for Immigrants Labor Fights for Immigrants
The stage is set for a showdown over the fate of undocumented workers.
May 3, 2001 / Feature / David Bacon