April 1, 2004
Fred Magdoff is professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont in Burlington. He is author of numerous scientific articles; coauthor, with Harold van Es, of Building… READ MORE
January 1, 2004
Asbjørn Wahl is an official of the Fagforbundet (a Norwegian trade union for municipal and health sector workers) and is vice chair of the Road Transport Worker’s Section of the… READ MORE
July 1, 2003
Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a long-time labor movement activist who currently serves as the president of TransAfrica Forum, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organizing and educational center formed to raise awareness… READ MORE
July 1, 2000
Michael Yates teaches economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnsrown, is a labor educator, and the author of Why Unions Matter (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998). 1 Capitalism… READ MORE
May 1, 2000
It is an old axiom, common to both Marxian and Keynesian economics, that uneven, class-based distribution of income is a determining factor of consumption and investment. How much is spent… READ MORE
January 1, 2000
Michael Yates is a labor educator and professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He is the author of Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs and Why Unions Matter… READ MORE
November 1, 1999
Paul Buhle, Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1999), $18, 315 pp.; Mike Parker &… READ MORE
March 1, 1999
If the United States has ever had a “welfare state,” Social Security must surely be the heart of it. In the world’s most predatory capitalism, this is the closest thing… READ MORE
January 1, 1999
Ideology comes, as we all know, in many guises, some more subtle and insidious than others. Children in the United States learn very early to think that capitalism means good… READ MORE
