Working Life

    For all of the political junkies amongst us, it’s going to be interesting to see what polls show at the end of the week. For a few days, there will be one huge (I refuse to use the newly concocted "ginormous" which seems to me to be a lazy new word conjured up by […]

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    For all of the political junkies amongst us, it’s going to be interesting to see what polls show at the end of the week. For a few days, there will be one huge (I refuse to use the newly concocted "ginormous" which seems to me to be a lazy new word conjured up by […]

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    This past week, I pondered how immigration was going to end up conjuring up the Willie Hortons of the 2008 election. If you had any doubt about the power of fear on immigration, check out what happened in the union representation vote at Fresh Direct in NYC. Two weeks before the vote, the company […]

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    This past week, I pondered how immigration was going to end up conjuring up the Willie Hortons of the 2008 election. If you had any doubt about the power of fear on immigration, check out what happened in the union representation vote at Fresh Direct in NYC. Two weeks before the vote, the company […]

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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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    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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