magazine February 16, 2004

features

Change Labor, Change America

We can’t change America unless we change the American labor movement. Unions aren’t just the best hope for working… more

By Andrew L. Stern

Organizing: The Future of the American Labor Movement

There is no greater goal right now for the American labor movement, and all progressives, than to put George… more

By Gerald McEntee

Organize, Strategize, Revitalize

Unions debate best way to revive labor’s fortunes

By David Moberg

Laboring for Justice in 2004

This is a critical year for the labor movement as it attempts to revitalize and transform itself into a… more

By Dorian T. Warren

Bridging the Labor-Environment Gap

A vote for exploration of Alaska’s National Wildlife Reserve is a vote for environmental responsibility, Jerry Hood, Local Alaska… more

By Adam Werbach

Healthcare Workers Win Raises

Chicago, Illinois—When the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, 20,000 home healthcare workers in Illinois had an extra… more

By Christopher Hayes

Magnet Consolidation Threatens Both U.S. Jobs and Security

Valparaiso, Indiana—Late last summer 160 high-tech magnet workers lost their jobs at Magnequench Inc. When the seven remaining workers… more

By David Moberg

Migrant Pickers Expose Slavery Rings

Florida—Mathieu Beaucicot is an immigrant from Haiti who came to the United States 11 years ago to earn money… more

By Kari Lydersen

Tech Workers Combat Offshoring

Seattle, Washington—“Tech workers thought that they were going to be the winners in building the bridge to the 21st… more

By Silja J.A. Talvi

Grocery Workers Go to War Over Healthcare

Los Angeles—Mark Norton is one of 70,000 workers locked out or forced on strike in Southern California. Hundreds of… more

By David Bacon

Poultry Giants Fight Organizers

Perry, Georgia—For 10 years Dorothy McKenzie has worked in poultry processing factories in the South. She knows why unions… more

By David Moberg

The Maturing Movement Against Sweatshops

Student anti-sweatshop activism has come of age. Exercising substantial sway over corporate giants, it has helped overseas garment workers… more

By Mischa Gaus

frontline

By Doug McGill

Ethiopian Genocide

Military massacres Anuak

By Dave Lindorff

Working the System

Agency advises employers how to duck overtime pay

By Daniel J. Hughes

Bush to Find New Ally in Guatemala

The victory of conservative candidate Oscar Berger over left-wing opponent Alvaro Colom in Guatemala’s run-off presidential election December 27… more

culture

Two Tales of One Monster

Are serial killers beyond redemption? Two new films consider the case of Aileen Wuornos, a woman executed by Florida… more

By Todd Lillethun

books

Lula Rising

Two thousand miles north of that bustling hub of Brazilian business, São Paulo, lies a dusty hamlet of 26,000… more

By Kevin Y. Kim

By Slavoj Zizek

What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died on January 21 1924, 80 years ago—does the embarrassed silence over his name mean that… more

books

Haymarket

Chicago’s august West Side Philosophical Society, aware of the agitation throughout the land, decided that the time had come… more

By Martin Duberman

By David Moberg

books

Questioning Labor History

A century ago labor issues were at the heart of American politics. How could American workers, increasingly employed by… more

music

Labor Paeans

Musician John McCutcheon will sometimes challenge rally organizers to name two speeches from the civil rights movement. “Everyone can… more

By Jody Kolodzey

Vol. 28, Iss. 06

magazine February 16, 2004

features

By Andrew L. Stern

By Gerald McEntee

By David Moberg

By Dorian T. Warren

By Adam Werbach

By Christopher Hayes

By David Moberg

By Kari Lydersen

By Silja J.A. Talvi

By David Bacon

By David Moberg

By Mischa Gaus

frontline

culture

By Todd Lillethun

books

By Kevin Y. Kim

By Slavoj Zizek

books

By Martin Duberman

By David Moberg

books

music

By Jody Kolodzey

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