July 1, 2011
“An Assessor” is a researcher and activist who has made extensive studies of education and testing, as well as national and international struggles for social change. Standardized testing occupies a… READ MORE
June 1, 2011
Minqi Li (minqi.li [at] economics.utah.edu) has taught economics at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, since 2006. He was a political prisoner in China from 1990 to 1992. His… READ MORE
June 1, 2011
Moshe Adler, Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal (New York: The New Press, 2009), 224 pages, $24.95, hardcover David Orrell, Economyths: Ten Ways… READ MORE
May 1, 2011
Steve Early, Labor’s Civil Wars (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2011), 440 pages, $17.00, paperback. Jon Flanders (jonflan [at] gmail.com) is a railroad machinist, past president of his IAM local, co-chair of… READ MORE
May 1, 2011
Elly Leary (ellyleary [at] earthlink.net) is a former autoworker and clerical worker. She is the former Vice President and Bargaining Chair in the UAW. Since retiring, she has worked with… READ MORE
May 1, 2011
Nikhil Pal Singh, editor, Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder: The Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O’Dell (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), 298 pages, $34.95, hardcover. Paul Buhle (paul_buhle [at] brown.edu), a… READ MORE
May 1, 2011
Will Kaufman, Woody Guthrie, American Radical (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2011) 264 pages, $29.95, hardcover. On January 18, 2009, two days before Barack Obama’s inauguration, close to half a… READ MORE
March 1, 2011
» Notes from the Editors In the United States, it is now three years since the “Great Recession” began, and twenty-one months since it officially ended. Whether or not the end… READ MORE
December 1, 2010
Dan DiMaggio (dan.dimaggio [at] gmail.com) is an independent writer, temp worker, and member of Socialist Alternative in Minneapolis, MN. Standardized testing has become central to education policy in the United… READ MORE
October 1, 2010
David Bacon (http://dbacon.igc.org) is a California writer, documentary photographer, and host of a weekly radio (KPFA-FM) program on labor, migration, and globalization. He was a union organizer among immigrant workers… READ MORE