Labor

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

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