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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Labor Studies Journal.daily12026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 27 (2002) - vol. 31 (2006)Latest Articles: Labor Studies JournalTWOProject MUSE®Labor Studies Journal1538-97580160-449XLatest articles in Labor Studies Journal. Feed provided by Project MUSE®The Employee Free Choice Act: A Skeptical View and Alternative
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208017
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The AFL-CIO, along with its ally American Rights at Work, has invested a great deal of time, energy, and money in promoting passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). Those of us who believe in collective representation hope that this initiative will fulfill the hopes of its promoters and produce a major advance in the number of workers with a collective voice at work. However, with Republicans in continuing control of Congress and the White House, the odds against passage of the Act would seem to be high. However, there are reasons to believe that, even if the Act should pass, the results will, unfortunately, fall short of expectations. Among the key elements of the Free Choice Act that are intended to spark
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallThe Employee Free Choice Act: A Skeptical View and Alternative2007-01-08text/htmlen-USThe Employee Free Choice Act: A Skeptical View and Alternative2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®586762026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08Worker Safety Under Siege: Labor, Capital, and the Politics of Workplace Safety in a Deregulated World (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208018
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This collection of 11 essays offers a sobering view of the worldwide decline of worker protection in the new global economy. The premise of Worker Safety Under Siege is that workers' safety nets have been seriously eroded by the ascendance of "neoliberal" policies which promote "the primacy of the market, the reduction in public expenditures for social services, the reduction of government regulation, and the privatization of state-owned enterprises." The compilation is a mixed bag, ranging from several highly readable essays with fresh perspectives to some rather dense tracts and rehashes of well-worn topics. Among the highlights are the first two contributions. Jordan Barab, a highly respected advocate for worker
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallWorker Safety Under Siege: Labor, Capital, and the Politics of Workplace Safety in a Deregulated World (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USWorker Safety Under Siege: Labor, Capital, and the Politics of Workplace Safety in a Deregulated World (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®50172026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08State Intervention and Trade Unions in New Zealand
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208019
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From 1894-1991, New Zealand tradBDFabry@aim.come unions operated under a pervasive and supportive system of state intervention. From 1991-2000, they confronted a vastly different environment following the introduction of neoliberal labor market reforms that removed unions' external legitimacy under the Employment Contracts Act (Harbridge and Honeybone 1996). In 2000, the Employment Relations Act reintroduced key institutional protections to support unionization and collective bargaining. Across these different regimes a significant number of small, poorly resourced, and narrowly constituted unions have existed. These unions have remained conservative, have pursued a narrow agenda, and have maintained a weak
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallState Intervention and Trade Unions in New Zealand2007-01-08text/htmlen-USState Intervention and Trade Unions in New Zealand2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®1151682026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08Authors
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208020
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Roy Adams is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4L8; e-mail: adamsr@mcmaster.ca.Michael Barry is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Industrial Relations, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia email m.barry@griffith.edu.au.Peter Fairbrother is Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3XQ, Wales; e-mail: FairbrotherPD@cf.ac.uk.Sheldon Friedman is an economist who serves as research coordinator for the AFL-CIO’s Voice@Work Campaign. He is a past national president of LERA.Julie Martinez Ortega is the Director of Research at the labor rights organization American Rights at Work; email:
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208021
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Addressed to graduate students as well as more experienced scholars, Eric Chester's True Mission challenges us to rethink the seemingly inevitable domination of the two-party system in the United States. By examining in detail the victories and defeats of socialist politics, especially from the mid-1880s to World War II, Chester describes the failure of radical activists to mount an effective left-wing challenge to the two-party system—a failure explained in part by the unwillingness of the labor parties or their surrogate organizations to make a complete break with the dominant party system. Organizing around celebrity candidates such as Ralph Nader, Henry George, and Robert La Follette, who often had little
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallTrue Mission: Socialists and the Labor Party Question in the U.S. (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USTrue Mission: Socialists and the Labor Party Question in the U.S. (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®49842026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08The FMLA Handbook: A Union Guide to Family and Medical Leave Act, Third Edition (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208023
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It's not every day, or even every decade that American workers win legislation entitling them to greater job protections. This is one reason the Family Medical Leave Act, and Robert Schwartz's latest book explaining how to use it, is so valuable. In The FMLA Handbook: A Union Guide to Family and Medical Leave Act, 3rd Ed., Schwartz provides clear and well-researched information that can be directly applied to maximize FMLA protections and increase workers' awareness and appreciation for these rights. This is critical to countering current efforts to weaken FMLA rights. Under the Act eligible workers are entitled to 12 weeks (60 days) of unpaid leave per year due to personal illness, to care for an ill family
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallThe FMLA Handbook: A Union Guide to Family and Medical Leave Act, Third Edition (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USThe FMLA Handbook: A Union Guide to Family and Medical Leave Act, Third Edition (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®74502026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08Taking Back the Workers' Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208024
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A savvy litigation strategy to "take back" the National Labor Relations Act must become a core part of labor's strategic arsenal if labor revitalization is to succeed, argues Ellen Dannin in her new book. A former NLRB attorney and, currently a professor at Wayne State University Law School, Dannin is a staunch defender of the National Labor Relations Act as a fundamentally sound vehicle for advancing labor rights. She rejects the argument that the core problem with labor law at this historic juncture is either the constitutional foundation of the labor act, the statutory text, or the structure of the labor board. Rather, she asserts, the problem arises from the federal judiciary's
hijacking of the NLRA's
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallTaking Back the Workers' Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USTaking Back the Workers' Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®72372026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08Why the Employee Free Choice Act Deserves Support: Response to Adams
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208025
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As Roy Adams correctly notes, the workplace rights crisis in the United States is so dire that it demands urgent attention from every thinking person who cares about democracy, human rights, and social and economic justice. Of the sixty million nonunion workers who tell pollsters that they want a union in their workplace, last year fewer than seventy thousand—a proportion so small as to be almost insignificant—succeeded in forming one via the NLRB process. Of these, many will never attain an initial collective bargaining agreement and fewer still will forge an enduring collective bargaining relationship with their employer. Most of this heroic handful, furthermore, was forced to run a gauntlet of employer
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallWhy the Employee Free Choice Act Deserves Support: Response to Adams2007-01-08text/htmlen-USWhy the Employee Free Choice Act Deserves Support: Response to Adams2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®305112026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208026
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In 2005, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) celebrated its one-hundred-year anniversary. Coinciding with the centennial celebration was the release of Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World, a fascinating, vividly illustrated book by one of America's top historians and a host of well-known radical artists. Edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman, Wobblies! provides a comprehensive overview of the union's history, short biographies of prominent union members, and a wide variety of graphic depictions of significant union activities.
Present here are the stories of American labor's greatest heroes: Mother Jones, "Big" Bill Haywood, and Eugene Debs. But Wobblies! does not stop
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallWobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USWobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®57142026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08Coal Hollow: Photographs and Oral Histories (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208027
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Although intended as a series in contemporary photography, Coal Hollow: Photographs and Oral Histories should catch the eye of those interested in the history of coal mining in Appalachia and also draw in those interested in the culture of West Virginia, the ethnicity of its people, and the impact of mining on their way of life. Cover to cover, Ken and Melanie Light's book is a true example of documentary journalism, from the forward by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich to the last biting words of noted West Virginia author and former gubernatorial candidate, Denise Giardina. This books documents the historical role that coal played in firing the furnaces to spur the industrial revolution of the late 1800s and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallCoal Hollow: Photographs and Oral Histories (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USCoal Hollow: Photographs and Oral Histories (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®52412026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08Tools of the Trade: A Health and Safety Handbook for Action (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208028
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The first chapter of Tools of the Trade says it all. Worker health and safety is a key issue for unions to embrace, not only for the obvious reason—to protect workers and keep them healthy—but also as a way to energize labor and community groups. Given the current climate that surrounds unions and organizing, this book identifies all of the advantages for unions to consider running a worker safety and health campaign: health and safety issues can build both worker and community support; a wide range of potential issues can appeal to the ever-diversifying workforce; health and safety campaigns can promote participation and develop leadership; and finally, when victorious, it can give workers' rights a boost. The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallTools of the Trade: A Health and Safety Handbook for Action (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USTools of the Trade: A Health and Safety Handbook for Action (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®53322026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208029
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The Haymarket affair is one of those momentous historical events pregnant with drama and rich with implications for the present no less than the past. James Green has written a well-paced and compelling account of the Haymarket events that succeeds in placing it in the broader context of social upheaval that characterized the period.
Green begins his narrative on May 1, 1866, when Chicago workers celebrated Governor Richard Oglesby's signing of the nation's first 8-hour law, and it seemed that the promise of the nation's "new birth of freedom," would extend to wage workers as well. This achievement became the inspiration for the nation's first national labor union. However, as powerful employers in Chicago
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallDeath in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USDeath in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®55182026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08Nurses on the Move: Migration and the Global Health Care Economy (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208030
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A couple of years ago in the middle of an organizing drive at a New Jersey hospital, we discovered that management had arranged to change all the telephone exchange numbers in the apartment building in which the hospital housed their "sponsored" Filipino nurses. The result, of course, was to cut off phone access to union organizers. But it also amounted to abuse of Filipino nurses, something that would ring familiar to Mireille Kingma, who has written Nurses on the Move, a detailed study of migrant nurses around the world that bores into the heart of migration and its integral relationship to globalization. Kingma reveals how the exploitation of nurses actually results from a lack of meaningful health-care policy
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallNurses on the Move: Migration and the Global Health Care Economy (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USNurses on the Move: Migration and the Global Health Care Economy (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®52712026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08Why We Should Support the Employee Free Choice Act
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208031
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Roy Adams raises some provocative and important questions in his essay, "The Employee Free Choice Act: A Skeptical View and Alternative." He notes that American Rights at Work actively supports the hard work of the AFL-CIO and others within and outside the labor movement in advocating for the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The proposed legislation, if enacted, would make a real impact on workers trying to form unions and bargain collectively. It would also provide a vehicle for educating the public and elected leaders about the obstacles that workers face when they try to organize. We agree with Professor Adams that workers' rights are under attack both in the United States and abroad. However
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallWhy We Should Support the Employee Free Choice Act2007-01-08text/htmlen-USWhy We Should Support the Employee Free Choice Act2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®283232026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208032
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Today's "food for people, not for profit" grocery co-ops may be one of the few vestiges of the cooperative movement that its post-Civil War practitioners would recognize today. But Steve Leiken makes his treatment of this nascent movement of cooperatives incredibly easy to read and follow. U.S. cooperatives then were based on the "Rochdale" cooperative movement in England that sold goods to members at market prices but returned profits to members in proportion to their purchases (sounds like the cash-back feature of the Discover credit card). But in the time period studied by Leiken, 1865-90, they flourished and then failed. In an "increasingly mechanized economy," Leiken writes, workers were less their own bosses
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallThe Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USThe Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®48992026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences, and: Communities and Workforce Development (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208033
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Jobs and employment security are topics prominent in much of the public discourse about what the future does and should hold for the United States' economy and the American worker. These two books contribute to different, though related, aspects of this conversation. Louis Uchitelle's book focuses on the dissolution of the social contract between employers and employees. He asks the reader to reconsider the angst
of those who struggle with layoffs and their aftermath. Interestingly, Uchitelle focuses attention on several cases involving solidly middle-class individuals who, though they did not face imminent financial disaster, struggled in myriad other ways, illustrating how layoffs take their toll regardless
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallThe Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences, and: Communities and Workforce Development (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USThe Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences, and: Communities and Workforce Development (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®76882026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08Bananeras: Women Transforming The Banana Unions of Latin America (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208034
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In Bananeras: Women Transforming The Banana Unions of Latin America, U.S. labor historian Dana Frank shifts her focus to Latin America. She uses interviews and participant observation in Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica to chronicle the transformation of the Latin American banana industry and its impact on workers. In the wake of Hurricane Mitch, Latin American banana union membership was at an all time low by the late 1990s. In response, banana workers began trying to revitalize, and reform, their unions. While union reform is always difficult, Frank demonstrates that it is especially hard for female reformers. This is primarily a result of ­institutionalized
sexism. In some unions, bureaucratic rules and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallBananeras: Women Transforming The Banana Unions of Latin America (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USBananeras: Women Transforming The Banana Unions of Latin America (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®59872026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208035
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In Subterranean Fire, Sharon Smith gives us a greatest-hits recounting of upsurges in U.S. working class and labor struggles. She takes us through several periods of labor movement growth, the reasons for them and the role of the organized left in each. For readers dealing with the political realities of 2006, this is bracing, even inspiring stuff. We need to be reminded that it has not always been so much about neocons and WalMart. For that reason, I recommend the book. However, like other such attempts to remember and thus help revive worker militance, it reveals too little about the long slow periods in between upsurges and needs to be complemented by studies that paint a fuller portrait of historical context
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallSubterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USSubterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®60542026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08The Triangle Fire, The Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208036
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On March 25, 1911, a fire raged through the crowded Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in lower Manhattan, killing 146 mostly young immigrant women, many of who jumped to their deaths. Just before, two large-scale strikes had rocked the local ladies' garment trades in response to low wages, poor conditions, and abusive treatment. The 1909 "Uprising of Twenty Thousand" involved mostly women shirtwaist makers, while male tailors participated in "The Great Revolt" of 1910. As Richard A. Greenwald convincingly demonstrates, these events marked turning points in labor history and industrial relations. While scholars have treated them as separate incidents, Greenwald links them as part of a quest by workers, their unions
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallThe Triangle Fire, The Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USThe Triangle Fire, The Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®63212026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08Labor Rights are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208037
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In Labor Rights are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America, Zaragosa Vargas magnifies the close ties connecting immigration policy, labor activism, and civil rights. Limiting his study to the 1930s-40s, Vargas concentrates on Mexican workers in the Southwest, the mountain states, and California. He uses specific strike actions and organizing campaigns to highlight the ways in which Mexican immigrants sought to improve their working conditions as well as their social and political circumstances. Vargas argues that working class labor activism "fundamentally changed the way Mexican Americans dealt with social injustice thereafter." Lacking a
representative national civil rights
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallLabor Rights are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USLabor Rights are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®53262026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208038
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Although I have studied American labor unions for nearly two decades, the issue of racketeering rarely has caught my attention. I suspect this is true for most of us in the field of labor studies and labor history. James Jacobs' Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement, however, offers a jolting corrective to our complacency. "Labor racketeering," Jacobs argues, "was a defining feature of American organized labor from the first decades of the twentieth century" and has contributed mightily to the decline of US trade unionism. Jacobs, a sociologist and legal scholar, begins his well-documented, cogently argued book by reviewing the ugly history of the Costa Nostra's infiltration of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallMobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USMobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®55502026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08Dancing on Live Embers: Challenging Racism in Organizations (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/208039
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From the very first section of Tina Lopes and Barb Thomas' insightful new book Dancing on Live Embers: Challenging Racism in Organizations, I was fully engaged and challenged. Any reader of the book who is a labor educator, a member of a community-based social justice organization, or a union activist or leader can't help but find themselves applying the authors' analysis to their own experience. Dancing on Live Embers is a combination of thought provoking and comprehensive analyses of organizational racism, along with concrete tools to help people create more equitable organizations. Lopes and Thomas begin with a discussion of what racial equity work is and then identify the players — which include people with
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/110/image/coversmallDancing on Live Embers: Challenging Racism in Organizations (review)2007-01-08text/htmlen-USDancing on Live Embers: Challenging Racism in Organizations (review)2007-01-082007TWOProject MUSE®52092026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002007-01-08