Working Life

    China is a complicated place. And, certainly, there has been a lot of debate in U.S. labor circles about how to engage with the Chinese labor movement–some see the one legal union in China as simply a government-run monolith that stands in for any independent union, while others see a more complicated picture where […]

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    China is a complicated place. And, certainly, there has been a lot of debate in U.S. labor circles about how to engage with the Chinese labor movement–some see the one legal union in China as simply a government-run monolith that stands in for any independent union, while others see a more complicated picture where […]

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    Here are a few things that caught my eye.     #1: Good riddance, Tom Tancredo–but do the Democrats understand the political implications of immigration in 2008? So, Tancredo, the odious member of Congress, is apparently dropping out of the presidential race, having registered barely a blip in the pretty weird and crazy Republican field. […]

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    Here are a few things that caught my eye.     #1: Good riddance, Tom Tancredo–but do the Democrats understand the political implications of immigration in 2008? So, Tancredo, the odious member of Congress, is apparently dropping out of the presidential race, having registered barely a blip in the pretty weird and crazy Republican field. […]

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John Edwards is making his closing argument with the voters of Iowa–and the media elites are having a hard time trying to understand why he is now drawing increasingly larger crowds. That comes through glaringly in today’s New York Times piece by the apparently perplexed Adam Nagourney.   In the piece, we learn that: Mr. […]

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John Edwards is making his closing argument with the voters of Iowa–and the media elites are having a hard time trying to understand why he is now drawing increasingly larger crowds. That comes through glaringly in today’s New York Times piece by the apparently perplexed Adam Nagourney.   In the piece, we learn that: Mr. […]

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    I’ve always been peeved at the way the press and the elites have revered Alan Greenspan–even as he screwed average people time after time. But, I guess that’s the definition of being an elite–you don’t really care about the damage done to regular people. This would be a good time to go back and […]

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    I’ve always been peeved at the way the press and the elites have revered Alan Greenspan–even as he screwed average people time after time. But, I guess that’s the definition of being an elite–you don’t really care about the damage done to regular people. This would be a good time to go back and […]

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    Recently, I wrote about the atrocious conditions at facilities in Jordan that churn out product for Victoria’s Secret. On Friday, I got an alert from my friends at the National Labor Committee about a strike that has broken out among workers who work in factories turning out goods for Wal-Mart, Gloria Vanderbilt and GAP […]

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    Recently, I wrote about the atrocious conditions at facilities in Jordan that churn out product for Victoria’s Secret. On Friday, I got an alert from my friends at the National Labor Committee about a strike that has broken out among workers who work in factories turning out goods for Wal-Mart, Gloria Vanderbilt and GAP […]

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