The Iron Heel – Jack London’s Oligarchic Rule
The name Jack London will ring up associations in most American readers from “To Build a Fire,” his enduringly …
Category Archives: Labor / Unions
Bullshit Jobs — A Review
David Graeber’s important new book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, begins with “a paradigmatic example” of a bullshit job as …
Organizing the Little Guy against the Big: From the Great Depression to Yes We Can
“Hopelessly heterogeneous… Honeycombed with diverse and racial sub-elements…. Thus read the Federal Housing Authority report on the Boyle Heights neighborhood in Los …
My Mañana Comes: Back of the House on Stage
On the enthusiastic recommendation of a friend, four of us collected ourselves to see the Marin Theater Company’s presentation of …
H2 Worker – Legal Immigrants and Illegal Employers
Update below. As a one-time volunteer for the United Farm Workers (AFL-CIO) the human cost of industrialized field labor has …
The Garment Jungle — Old School Union Organizing
The International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the ILGWU, has a fabled name in labor and progressive circles, once one of …
Turkey to Switzerland: Hope Drives Despair
As one interpretation of Pandora’s Box goes, what remains inside after all the evils are set free — hope– is …
Potiche – Trophy Wife, a frothy French Labor Film
We took a flyer last night on Potiche – Trophy Wife, based on Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu being the leads. …
The Devil’s Miner: A Bolivian Documentary
Working in a mine work may not be the most dangerous job in the world (believe it or not, …
Unions: Assault By Slime
A vicious, eye-catching ad appeared in the NY Times, USA Today and other print media, displaying photos of Idi Amin, …
Immigrants and Labor
We’ve often wondered at this site who on earth will do the work when the illegals are run out of …
Farmworker Organizer Beaten To Death
The backside of the US farm-labor market is hidden away in the mountains of Northern Mexico. Recruiters in the pay …