The New Geopolitics of Empire
January 1, 2006
This article is a much expanded version of a plenary address delivered to the Fifth Colloquium of Latin American Political Economists in Mexico City on October 27. Parts of this… READ MORE
Articles
What Will We Do?: The Destruction of Occupational Identities in the ‘Knowledge-Based Economy’
January 1, 2006
Ursula Huws is professor of international labor studies at the Working Lives Research Institute at London Metropolitan University and is director of the research consultancy Analytica. She is the author… READ MORE
What Was the Matter with Ohio?: Unions and Evangelicals in the Rust Belt
January 1, 2006
James Straub is a writer and union organizer in Las Vegas. It was a fittingly ironic end to an election full of grotesque twists: When George W. Bush was narrowly… READ MORE
Heroes and Villains in the Cold War Battle for the United Electrical Workers
January 1, 2006
Peter Gilmore will retire this month from his position as managing editor of the UE News after nearly twenty-nine years on the union’s staff. He is a doctoral student in… READ MORE
Lost and Found: The Italian-American Radical Experience
January 1, 2006
Marcella Bencivenni teaches history at Hostos Community College in New York. She is currently writing a manuscript on radical Italian immigrant culture in the United States. Her most recent article,… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2005
December 1, 2005
At the end of October John Bellamy Foster and Martin Hart-Landsberg (coauthor with Paul Burkett of China and Socialism and author of Korea: Division, Reunification and U.S. Foreign Policy—both published… READ MORE
Crossing Race and Nationality: The Racial Formation of Asian Americans, 1852-1965
December 1, 2005
Bob Wing was part of the first wave of Asian-American activists in the late 1960s. He was founding editor of the antiwar newspaper, War Times,and of the racial justice magazine,… READ MORE
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
December 1, 2005
Let not those who deny thee to us, �make of thee a graven image and invite us�to bow down to it � writes Saum Song Bo. He says, graven, an… READ MORE
Disassembled Wonder
December 1, 2005
Disassembled wonder: crates and a box of jangling bolts,�instructions: how to build a liberty � Longshore cousins of a Polish leatherworker, Irish farmer,�olive presser from Spain queued since daybreak�(thermos of… READ MORE
Natural History and the Nature of History
December 1, 2005
Richard York teaches sociology at the University of Oregon. His research, which focuses primarily on human interaction with the natural environment, has been published in Ambio, American Sociological Review, Ecological… READ MORE