Interview: THe TPP and Why the U.S. is Pivoting to Asia
The Obama administration has labored since 2009 to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive free trade agreement with 11…
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Pity the Poor Affluent: Save Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Little Dominique Strauss-Kahn is only 62 years old, yet he struggles each day with a tragic disability: Try as…
Globalization, Use of Temps, Destroying Middle-Class Jobs
Two related trends—using globalization as a lever to extort multi-tier wage systems and the massive expansion of temporary work—are…
A bit more than five weeks ago we wrote about our dumbbelled recovery. We are now in the midst…
Labor on the Move: David Bacon’s “Illegal People” Explores Ties Between Repression and Migration
Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants By David Bacon Beacon Press, 2008 Government repression in Mexico…
Big Squeeze More Like a Bear Hug
A review of The Big Squeeze By Steven Greenhouse Borzoi Books, 2008 Once upon a time, the major national…