“We must expand from one-day marches and demonstrations to weeks of creative direct action and activities,” wrote Stephen Lerner in New Labor Forum, a quarterly left-labor journal, several weeks before Occupy Wall Street took shape. One way to do that, he continued, “is to build these kinds of longer and more involved protests around students […]
Working in America
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Showdown at the Docks
Occupy Wall Street protesters celebrated the movement’s three-month anniversary by taking the fight to major ports.
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Bottom Up
Think the minimum wage covers everything but restaurant workers? Think again.
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DRAFT 21st century slaves
Most of the news media attention to modern-day trafficking and slavery has been on sex trafficking: international sex slavery and tourism, which Nicholas Kristof has so diligently covered; sex trafficking into the U.S., in which women who hoped to work here legitimately were, instead, kept under armed guard and sold in massage parlors, strip clubs, […]
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Made in America — Again
Leaders discuss returning manufacturing to the U.S. in a Prospect roundtable.
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GOP vs. Job Creators
Despite their rhetoric about small businesses, Republicans side with millionaires when it comes down to it.Â
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Game Plan
With a labor agreement tentatively in place, the NBA’s next challenge will be bringing the fans back.
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NBA, Final
A league labor agreement includes a surprising caveat to protect owners from … themselves.
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A More Perfect Union
At a time when union membership is in a free fall, New York’s Local 6 shows how organized labor can survive and thrive in the service economy.
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Back from China?
Manufacturing once gave the U.S. its middle-class majority. Can it do it again?
