On March 31, speaking before the International Donors’ Conference for Haiti, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proclaimed the United States’ commitment to “help Haiti and to help the leaders of Haiti lead a recovery effort worthy of their highest hopes.” At the conclusion of the...
Nelson Lichtenstein, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business. Metropolitan Books, 2009 Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Harvard University Press, 2009 Many New Yorkers might wonder what use it is to...
Kim Moody, U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below. Verso, 2007, 320 pages. Bill Fletcher Jr. and Fernando Gapasin, Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice. University of...
What would happen if all graduate students, adjuncts, and other “contingent workers” at CUNY decided to withhold their labor for a week? How would CUNY continue operating if these so-called “part-timers” took a week-long work holiday? With graduate students and...
Over the past month the campaign for graduate student health insurance has grown tremendously. Graduate students are signing up for the campaign in large numbers, calling and writing letters to their representatives in the State Assembly and Senate, and insisting that Chancellor Matthew...
