Leading Labor Journal’s Summer Issue
Focuses on Labor in the Shifting Political Environment
New Labor Forum, a national labor journal owned and edited by the Murphy Institute's Center for Worker Education and Labor Studies, at the City University of New York, announces the release of its Summer 2008 issue that examines the interplay between low-wage workers (particularly women) and the labor movement, amidst the backdrop of an anticipated shift in thepolitical climate.
“Great expectations fill the air. The new Democratic administration will have to respond to this supercharged political atmosphere,” say the editors. “It is those great expectations, not the presidential contest itself, which promise to open up a new chapter in the popular struggle for social justice and to close the door on a long generation of conservative counterrevolution. For that reason, this issue of New Labor Forum is devoted to examining some of the most strategically significant developments that inspire the labor movement’s own set of great expectations and account for its greatest challenges.”
“If the labor movement is to be reborn, that revitalization will have to occur among these invariably low-wage, often women, African American and immigrant workers whose work life is far more transient than the old industrial working-class of the last century,” say the editors.
Key articles in this issue include:
· Heather Boushey and Shawn Fremstad’s The Wages of Exclusion: Low-Wage Work and Inequality – an instructive overview of today’s low-paying U.S. job market.
· Roger Waldinger’s Will the Followers Be Led? Where Union Members Stand on Immigration – ananalysis ofrecent national survey results, revealingthat union members’ views on immigration policy are out of step with labor leadership.
· Jeffrey Rothstein’s Lean Times: The UAW Contract and the Crisis of Industrial Unionism in the Auto Industry – an examination oflast year’s historic concessionary collective bargaining agreement between the “Big 3” U.S. automakers and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union that has permanently reshaped labor relations in the auto industry.
· Jay Youngdahl’s Mapping the Future: Cross-Border Unionizing Strategies – an exploration ofthe current state of transnational unionization efforts.
·Jack Metzgar’s (Mis)Understanding the White Working Class –abook reviewthat considers white working-classconservative
culture.
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NEW LABOR FORUM
ISSN PRINT 1095-7960
ISSN ONLINE 1557-2978
Volume 17, 2008
3 issues per year
Summer 2008 (Volume 17, Issue 2) Table of Contents
I. WOMEN, THE WORKING POOR, AND THE NEW LABOR
MOVEMENT
The Wages of Exclusion: Low-Wage Work and Inequality, Heather Boushey and Shawn Fremstad
Low-Wage Women Workers: A Profile, Stephanie Luce and Eve Weinbaum
Labor on the Home Front: Unionizing Home-Based Care Workers, Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein
Will the Followers Be Led? Where Union Members Stand on Immigration, Roger Waldinger
The Perfect Storm of Campaign 2008, Steve Fraser
Lean Times: The UAW Contract and the Crisis of Industrial Unionism in the Auto Industry, Jeffrey S. Rothstein
II. GLOBAL LABOR ORGANIZING
Mapping the Future: Cross-Border Unionizing
Strategies, Jay Youngdahl
The Steelworkers Union Goes Global, Ruth Needleman
No Sweat? Corporate Social Responsibility and the Dilemma of Anti-Sweatshop Activism, Jeff Ballinger
The Sound of One Hand Clapping: Labor's Silence on Union Media Democracy, Martin Fishgold
III. WORKING-CLASS VOICES OF CONTEMPORARY
AMERICA
Agencia de Empleos: Three Days in the Life of a Temporary Worker, David Van Arsdale
Economic Prospectus: The Housing Bubble and Financial Deregulation: Isn't Enough Enough?, Robert Pollin
Caught in the Web: Rotten Tomatoes, Kim Phillips-Fein
IV. BOOK REVIEWS
(Mis)Understanding The White Working-Class: Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War. by Joe Bageant
Reviewed by Jack Metzgar
The Reel Watts Killer Of Sheep Directed by Charles Burnett
Reviewed by Peter Rachleff
Leave the Driving to Us Taxi! Cabs and Capitalism in New York City by Biju Mathew
Reviewed by Steve Early
Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike by Deepa Kumar
Reviewed by Steve Early