Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without …
Neoliberal globalization is commonly seen as the nemesis of labor. A counter-thesis is offered here. Neoliberal capitalism threatens labor at every level, from the local to the …
Recent decades have witnessed an upsurge in activism around labor issues in global production networks. A particularly prominent example is the antisweatshop movement, a …
Why are unions weaker in the US than in Canada, two otherwise similar countries? This difference has shaped politics, policy, and levels of inequality. Conventional wisdom points …
Fewer than 12 percent of US workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in inequality within and between …
Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Cornell ILR School, 2019 A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book …
The neoliberal era has undermined worker's rights and labor's power at the national level, but has also been characterized as an era of 'the new labor transnationalism'. Shifting …
K Scipes - Class, Race and Corporate Power, 2014 - JSTOR
After the election of John Sweeney as President of the AFL-CIO in October 1995, activists and supportive intellectuals in the United States began thinking about how to revitalize the …
In 1946 Juan Perón launched a populist challenge to the United States, recruiting an army of labor activists to serve as worker attachés at every Argentine embassy. By 1955, over five …