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Be sure to pick up the important January issue of New Labor Forum, which is timed to coincide with the upcoming Global Unions Conference and includes a number of provocative discussions on the most crucial issues facing both American and global labor today.
Table of Contents
The Global Imperative
International Labor Solidarity: The New Frontier
By Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith
An agenda for building cross-border cooperation.
The Feminization of Chinese Industry
Millions of women migrants from rural China are transforming the global garment industry and asserting their rights.
The Sound and the Fury: Debating Labor’s Breakup
Can Anything Good Come From This?
By Jeff Crosby
Why the split in the labor movement will do more harm than good.
Divided We Stand
By Ruth Milkman
Why the split in the labor movement will do more good than harm.
Do Immigrants Block African American Progress? A Debate
Immigration, African Americans, and Race Discourse
By Stephen Steinberg
Is history repeating itself? Examining immigration’s impact on African Americans.
A Response to “Immigration, African Americans, and Race Discourse”
By Adolph Reed
A Response to “Immigration, African Americans, and Race Discourse”
By Maria Elena Durazo and David Koff
A Response to “Immigration, African Americans, and Race Discourse”
By Gary Gerstle
A Response to “Immigration, African Americans, and Race Discourse”
By Peter Kwong
A Rejoinder from Stephen Steinberg
Working-Class Voices of Contemporary America
David and his 26 Roommates
By Debbie Nathan
Changing the Menu
By Rinku Sen
How Worker Centers are breaking down the restaurant industry’s racial hierarchy.
CyberUnionism: Getting Labor Online
By Art Shostak
A strategy for making the labor movement computer savvy.
The Yummy Pizza Curriculum: Introducing Class into the Classroom
How one teacher got elementary school kids to think about the class struggle.
Caught in the Web
By Kim Phillips-Fein
Labor news, views, and resources online.
Books and the Arts:
Naming the Enemies
Immigrants, Unions, and the New U.S. Labor Market
By Immanuel Ness
Reviewed by Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval
Under Construction
Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of Building Trades History
By Grace Palladino
Reviewed by Max Fraser
Cinema Purgatorial: A Review of Crash and the transformation of LA’s film noir
Crash
Directed by Paul Haggis
Reviewed by Wallace Katz
Poetry
Letters
About Our Contributors
New Labor Forum is the leading national labor journal, published by the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, of the City University of New York.
Go to http://www.newlaborforum.org for more details on the January issue and New Labor Forum.
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