John Schmitt and Kris Warner (CEPR): The Changing Face of Labor, 1983-2008. The work around: How some supervisors of low-wage workers break the rules to make an unfair system a little bit fairer. A review of Can They Do That? Retaking Our Fundamental Rights in the Workplace by Lewis Maltby. A review of Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men by Maria Charles and David B. Grusky. Unions must move Left, they have no alternative: A review of Solidarity Divided by Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin (and more). The Good War and the workers: World War II defense contracts raised labor standards — government could use the same leverage in peacetime. A review of Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home by Steve Early. For American labor, year one of Barack Obama's presidency has been close to an unmitigated disaster. SEIU’s Civil War: American workers need a labor movement grounded in social justice, not fractured, fighting unions. Making labor legal: Renewing the tradition of using non-white, sub-citizen workers ought to cause considerable stress to those concerned with human rights. David Mulcahey reviews Nice Work if You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times by Andrew Ross. From Studies in Social Justice, a special issue on work, insecurity, and social justice. Misunderstanding the anti-union narrative: Many scholars find the theme of corruption in organized laborLINK hard to square with the reigning historiography. Why teach labor history? Union members have played a significant role in democratizing America and humanizing the workplace. A review of Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? by Robin Archer. Should labor defend undocumented workers?
