A Letter to a Contributor: The Same Old State
January 1, 1998
The substance of what follows is contained in a letter to the author of an article we will be publishing in a later issue. The editors, who were shown copies… READ MORE
Articles
An Exchange: Eras of Power; Class Compacts, the Welfare State, and Epochal Shifts
January 1, 1998
Frances Fox Piven and Richard A.Cloward are co-authors of The Breaking of the American Social Compact (1997) � During the past few years a strong challenge has been mounted in… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 1997
by The Editors
December 1, 1997
The New Yorker dated October 20-27 carries, along with a generous menu of futurology, a sensational article on the past and present. It is entitled “The Return of Karl Marx,”… READ MORE
The Women Who Organized Harvard: A Feminist Model of Labor Organization?
December 1, 1997
Elly Leary, a former assembler at the now-closed GM-Farmingham plant, currently works as a clerical at Boston University where she is Vice President ofUAW 2324.Jean Alonso, a retired assembler in… READ MORE
Imperialism and NGOs in Latin America
December 1, 1997
James Petras teaches sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is co-author of the book Neoliberalism and Class Conflict in Latin America (Macmillan, 1997). � By… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 1997
November 1, 1997
Ecology, a.k.a. environmental studies, is a relatively new area of scientific interest, mostly a product of the second half of the twentieth century and rapidly growing as the century draws… READ MORE
Why Marxism?
November 1, 1997
Daniel Singer has been The Nation’s European correspondent for nearly twenty years. He is the author of several books including The Road to Gdansk (1981) and Whose Millennium?: Theirs or… READ MORE
A Critique of Tabb on Globalization
November 1, 1997
Richard B. Du Boff is professor of economics at Bryn Mawr College; Edward S. Herman is professor emeritus of finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. In “Globalization Is An Issue…. READ MORE
Contextualizing Globalization: Comments on Du Boff and Herman
November 1, 1997
William K. Tabb is professor of economics and political science at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of The… READ MORE
A Note on Du Boff and Herman
November 1, 1997
Ellen Meiksins Wood is co-editor of Monthly Review. � I’m taking the liberty of appending this note because, though Du Boff and Herman’s article is directed mainly at Bill Tabb,… READ MORE