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| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
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Special Section on Women and Work
Edited by Gertrude Ezorsky
Articles in the SymposiumThe Labor Origins of the Next Women's Movement, Dorothy Sue Cobble
Migration, Domestic Work, and Repression, Julia Wrigley
Relevant, Irrelevant, or Both?, Lynn Chancer
Women, Family, Welfare and Work, Betty Reid Mandell
| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
Migration, Domestic Work, and Repression
Title: Global Women: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New EconomyBy: Edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild
New York: Holt, 2002, 336 pp. $15
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Reviewed by Julia Wrigley
Summer 2005
In their edited collection, Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Hochschild write that Third World women are on the move as never before, filling jobs in the "homes, nurseries, and brothels of the First World" (2002). The rushed and materialistic societies of the First World leave working parents little time to look after their children or their own parents. Women migrating from poor countries fill the gap.
| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
The Labor Origins of the Next Women's Movement
Dorothy Sue Cobble
| Dorothy Sue Cobble's book, The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (Princeton University Press, 2002), retrieves the forgotten feminism of the previous generation of working women. Their reform agenda -- an end to unfair sex discrimination, just compensation for their waged labor, and the rights of their families and communities -- launched a revolution in employment practices that has carried over into the present. |
| Lois Weiner | February 26, 2010 |
“Unions are killing the economy” says Henry Blodget at the Business Insider. He gleefully applauds the firing of every teacher in a Rhode Island school for their arrogance. How dare workers, teachers especially, think they have a voice in their working conditions or salaries? How uppity of teachers to sneer at the bosses’ absolutist control of the workplace. Let’s recall that Henry Blodget was indicated for insider trading.
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
The Intra-Immigrant Dilemma
Alan Aja
"Black people should do more to help themselves. . . . We worked for everything we have. They should too." (Cuban-American Miami resident)
"[Whites] are racists by tradition and they at least know that what they're doing is not quite right . . . Cubans don't even think there is anything wrong with it. That is the way they've always related, period." (African-American Miami resident)*
| Lois Weiner | February 18, 2010 |
Though you wouldn’t know it from the mass media, which focuses its attention on the way teacher unions impede “educational innovation,” (e.g., standardized testing’s stranglehold; privatization; cuts in funding), we are witnessing a growing swell of reform in teacher unions. Transformation of both national teacher unions is absolutely essential to turn back the neoliberal program that the Obama administration is pushing.
| Winter 2007 | Vol:XI-2 | Whole #: 42 |
Oaxaca Uprising
John Gibler
"Ulises nos decia: 'ni marchas ni plantones'. Aqui le demostramos que somos mas cabrones."
("Ulises told us: no marches and no protests. Here we'll show him that we're more badass than he is.")
The Oaxaca Uprising began as an annual, peaceful teachers' strike and exploded into an unarmed uprising after Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz refused to dialogue with the teachers, instead sending in 1,000 riot police to violently lift their protest camp in Oaxaca City's town square, or Zòcalo.
| Winter 2007 | Vol:XI-2 | Whole #: 42 |
SEIU Confronts the Home Care Crisis in California
Brandynn Holgate and Jennifer Shea
Defining the Crisis
| Winter 2010 | Vol:XII-4 | Whole #: 48 |
Card Check: Labor's Charlie Brown Moment? (part 2)
Robert Fitch
Economic Foundations of Business Unionism
| Winter 2010 | Vol:XII-4 | Whole #: 48 |
Iranian Workers say: "We have nothing to lose but our unpaid wages"
Yassamine Mather
Half a year after the demonstrations of June, 2009 in Iran, it is probably easier to examine in more depth the events that changed the country's political landscape. The bourgeois media in Iran and abroad is unanimous: the presidential elections of June 2009 and predictions of a Moussavi victory gave hope that change within the exiting regime was possible; millions of Iranians took part in the elections; the regime rigged the results; the rest is history.