Article Subjects and Geography: Labor
Fixed, Footloose, or Fractured: Work, Identity, and the Spatial Division of Labor in the Twenty-First Century City
March 1, 2006
Ursula Huws is professor of international labor studies at the Working Lives Research Institute at London Metropolitan University and is director of the research consultancy Analytica. She is the author… READ MORE
Heroes and Villains in the Cold War Battle for the United Electrical Workers
January 1, 2006
Peter Gilmore will retire this month from his position as managing editor of the UE News after nearly twenty-nine years on the union’s staff. He is a doctoral student in… READ MORE
Lost and Found: The Italian-American Radical Experience
January 1, 2006
Marcella Bencivenni teaches history at Hostos Community College in New York. She is currently writing a manuscript on radical Italian immigrant culture in the United States. Her most recent article,… READ MORE
Labor, the State, and the Struggle for a Democratic Zimbabwe
December 1, 2005
Patrick Bond is director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs. Two of his articles on Zimbabwe have appeared in Monthly Review, “Zimbabwe,… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2005
October 1, 2005
The much-anticipated split in the AFL-CIO, the labor federation in the United States, took place in Chicago, at the federation’s annual convention. Three unions—the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the… READ MORE
Can Germany’s Corporatist Labor Movement Survive?
September 1, 2005
Ingo Schmidt teaches economics at the University of Northern British Colombia in Prince George and is coeditor of Goettringer Betriebsexpress, a local labor magazine in Germany. He is affiliated with… READ MORE
Labor Movements: Is There Hope?
June 1, 2005
Fernando E. Gapasin is a former professor of industrial relations and Chicano/a studies. He was the primary researcher for the development of the AFL-CIO’s Union Cities program. He has forty… READ MORE
The Legacy of the IWW
June 1, 2005
Paul Buhle coedited, with Nicole Schulman, Wobblies! A Graphic History (Verso, 2005) and, with labor muralist Mike Alewitz, has launched a centennial Wobbly Tour for 2005, with banners, films, and… READ MORE