Labor/Unions/Workers: Peace and Conflict Studies Archive

Alperovitz, Gar. "America Beyond Capitalism." Unwelcome Guests #637 (January 5, 2013)

---. ""Worker-Owners of America, Unite": Will Cooperative Workplaces Democratize U.S. Economy?" Democracy Now (December 15, 2011)

Aronowitz, Stanley, Steve Williams, and Rick Wolff. "A Chronology of Capitalism." Making Contact (May 20, 2009)

Bajak, Frank. "Study: Colombia anti-union violence undeterred." Boston Globe (October 2, 2011)

Baptie, Trisha and Gunilla Ekberg. "Prostitution and Women's Equality: Imagining More for Women, Parts 1 and 2." Needs No Introduction (March 24 and 31, 2011)

Beckert, Sven and Seth Rockman. "How Slavery Led to Modern Capitalism." Bloomberg (January 24, 2012)

Biggers, Jeff. "Coal in the Heartland." History for the Future (November 23, 2010)

Blackford, Linda. "Pay for university presidents growing faster than faculty salaries in Kentucky." Lexington Herald-Leader (March 20, 2012)

Buhle, Paul. "Mari Jo & Paul Buhle weigh in on the largest pro-labor mobilization in modern American history." Media Matters (January 15, 2012)

Building Bridges Radio: Your Community and Labor Report ["Our beat is the labor front, broadly defined, both geographically and conceptually. We examine the world of work and workers on the job as well as where they live. We examine the issues that affect their everyday lives, with a particular sensitivity towards human rights abuses, environmental concerns and the U.S. drive for global domination. We record their global struggles and provide analysis of their efforts to empower themselves and transform society to provide greater democratic, human, social, political and economic rights. Each program consists of feature stories, generally interviews, within a historical context, often accompanied by sound from demonstrations, rallies or conferences, and complemented and enhanced by poetry and instrumental or vocal -- people's culture.">

Bybee, Roger. "The Great Corporate Tax Swindle." In These Times (September 1, 2011)

Chan, John. "Protests highlight the plight of migrant workers in China." World Socialist Web Site (June 17, 2011)

Chen, Michelle. "State Budget Battles Converge on Prison Labor Force." In These Times (March 9, 2011)

"Coal Reignites Mighty Battle of Labor History." NPR (March 5, 2011)

D, Davey. "Wanted for Killing 3, Christopher Dorner’s Claims of Racism, Corruption Resonate with LAPD’s Critics." Democracy Now (February 11, 2013)

Daisey, Mike. "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory." This American Life (January 6, 2012)

Daisey, Mike and Charles Duhigg. "Apple, Accustomed to Profits and Praise, Faces Outcry for Labor Practices at Chinese Factories." Democracy Now (February 10, 2012)

Elk, Mike and Bob Sloan. "The Hidden History of ALEC and Prison Labor." The Nation (August 1, 2011)

Ellis, C.P. "Why I Quit the Klan." American Dreams Lost and Found (Interviewed by Studs Terkel: 1980)

Excluded Workers Congress. "Unity for Dignity: Expanding the Right to Organize to Win Human Rights at Work." Jobs With Justice (December 2010)

Faux, Jeff. " Education Profiteering; Wall Street's Next Big Thing?" The Real News Network (September 30, 2012)

Foster, John Bellamy, Robert W. McChesney and R. Jamil Jonna. "The Global Reserve Army of Labor and the New Imperialism." Monthly Review 63.6 (November 2011)

Gabriel, Trip. "Teachers Wonder, Why the Scorn?" The New York Times (March 2, 2011)

Graeber, David. "On Bureaucratic Technologies & the Future as Dream-Time." School of Visual Arts (January 19, 2012)

Graves, Lisa. "Who Is the League of American Voters?: The First in a Series on the Squawkers for Walker." PR Watch (March 2, 2011)

Green, James. "Death in the Haymarket." We Are Many (June 17, 2010)

Hagos, Michael. "The Cult of Having Versus the City of Being." Wafrika (2009)

Harvey, David. Reading Capital with David Harvey (A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures: 2011)

---. "Urban Uprisings from Occupy Wall Street to the Paris Commune." Democracy Now (April 30, 2012)

In These Times [Chicago, IL: "In These Times is a nonprofit and independent newsmagazine committed to political and economic democracy and opposed to the dominance of transnational corporations and the tyranny of marketplace values over human values. In These Times is dedicated to reporting the news with the highest journalistic standards; to informing and analyzing movements for social, environmental and economic justice; and to providing an accessible forum for debate about the policies that shape our future."]

Jobs with Justice ["Jobs with Justice engages workers and allies in campaigns to win justice in workplaces and in communities where working families live. JwJ was founded in 1987 with the vision of lifting up workers’ rights struggles as part of a larger campaign for economic and social justice. We believe in long-term multi-issue coalition building , grassroots base-building and organizing and strategic militant action as the foundation for building a grassroots movement, and we believe that by engaging a broad community of allies, we can win bigger victories. We reach working people through the organizations that represent them—unions, congregations, community organizations—and directly as JwJ activists. Nearly 100,000 people have signed the Jobs with Justice pledge to Be There at least five times a year for someone else’s struggle as well as their own. In more than 40 cities in 25 states across the country, we are building coalitions of labor, religious, student and community organizations that are committed to each other for the long haul. Our campaigns make a difference for workers facing hostile bosses, knowing they are not alone in their struggle. At JwJ, solidarity is a two-way street: when communities come out for unions, they can expect unions to come out for them. Union victories are crucial, but they are not enough. We must maintain a strong commitment that our coalitions will weigh in on community fights. In 2009, local coalitions worked on a total of 111 workplace justice campaigns affecting more than 135,000 workers. Jobs with Justice coalitions supported approximately 46,000 workers in 56 organizing and first contract campaigns, and helped more than 10,000 workers at 17 workplaces win union recognition or first union contracts. Jobs with Justice coalitions worked on 130 community campaigns on issues like health care, immigrants’ rights, global justice, accountable development, state minimum wage increases, and sweat-free ordinances. JwJ coalitions were the primary coordinators for 70% of these campaigns."]

Johnson, Dave. "Actually, 'the Rich' Don't 'Create Jobs,' We Do." TruthOut (May 14, 2011)

Johnston, Angus. "CUNY Declares War On Rebel English Department: New Information from QCC." Student Activism (September 16, 2012)

Kentucky Labor Institute ["The Kentucky Labor Institute (KLI) is a statewide non-profit corporation based in Louisville and founded “to educate workers and the public about the history of working people’s movements, to assess the current conditions of workers in Kentucky, and to offer recommendations for improving those conditions.” The Board of Directors of the KLI represent a cross-section of union leaders, academics, social justice advocates, and retirees dedicated to correcting the thirty-year assault against collective bargaining rights and the New Deal social contract, a bargain between workers, employers, and government that did so much to establish a healthy middle class and social equity in the United States."]

Klein, Naomi. "Naomi Klein on Anti-Union Bills and Shock Doctrine American-Style: 'This is a Frontal Assault on Democracy, It’s a Kind of a Corporate Coup D’Etat'" Democracy Now (March 9, 2011)

Lebowitz, Michael A. "The Unifying Element in All Struggles Against Capital Is the Right of Everyone to Full Human Development." Monthly Review (November 1, 2011)

Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker. The Many Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.

Murphy, Meghan. "Exploring prostitution and abolition: Activism, events and debates." The F Word (March 12, 2011)

Noor, Jaisal. "Thousands Rally in Chicago Teachers’ Strike, Pushing Back Against Corporatized Education Reform." Democracy Now (September 11, 2012)

O'Donnell, Lawrence. "Matt Damon Rewrites Attack on Teachers." The Last Word (August 1, 2011)

"Office Depot's Anti-Union Policies." Unwelcome Guests #5 (April 5, 2000)

Paalberg, Michael. "US unions' continued decline masks new forms of worker activism." The Guardian (January 25, 2013)

Pyle, Christian L. "Adjuncts: The Invisible Majority." North of Center (April 27, 2011)

Rowan, Harriet Blair. "Wisconsin’s Uprising: A Guided Tour of the 11-Day Protest Encampment Inside the State Capitol in Madison." Democracy Now (February 25, 2011)

Schlosser, Eric. "Why Being a Foodie Isn't Elitist." The Washington Post (April 27, 2011)

Schulte, Elizabeth. "Eugene Debs and American Socialism." We are Many (June 18, 2009)

Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces. Films For Action (February 14, 2013)

Sigal, Clancy. "Blair Mountain and labor's living history." The Guardian (November 11, 2011)

Smith, Chris. "What’s Eating the NYPD?" New York (April 8, 2012)

Teacher Solidarity ["Our aim is to bring together teacher activists internationally by recording their struggles. All over the world teachers are taking action - occupying, demonstrating and striking - against 'reforms' which are standing in the way of truly emancipated and creative education for the world's children. This site has been set up as a result of our book 'The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers and their Unions: Stories for Resistance.'"]

"Wal-Mart v Dukes: Wal-Mart declared Too Big to Discriminate." Fair and Feminist (June 20, 2011)

Waring, Marilyn and Elaine Bernard. "Delusions of Modern Economics & The Free Market (Women's Day Edition)." Unwelcome Guests (March 10, 2000)

Wilson, Rand. "Rite Aid Workers’ Strike in Cleveland Sparks Nationwide Protest." In These Times (April 4, 2011)

Wolff, Richard D. "The Continuing Economic Crisis." History for the Future (May 31, 2011)

---. "Is There an Alternative for Capitalist Economics and Politics?" TruthOut (January 8, 2013)

---. "Jettisoning Accustomed Categories of Thought (Marxian Class Analysis 2) Unwelcome Guests #625 (October 13, 2012)

---. "A Tale of Two Lootings." Truthout (August 3, 2011)

Wolff, Richard and Deepa Varna. "How To Occupy the Economy." Making Contact (February 7, 2012)

"Yes, women still earn 75% as much as men." Feministing (March 2, 2011)