Notes from the Editors, April 1998
April 1, 1998
Readers may remember that in last year’s summer issue on labor we talked about a roundtable organized by MR for activists in the labor movement and held in our office… READ MORE
Articles
Teamsters Reform Movement Survives Carey’s Debacle
April 1, 1998
Jane Slaughter is a labor writer in Detroit. � What’s remarkable about the aftermath of Ron Carey’s removal as a candidate for Teamsters president is the staying power of the… READ MORE
The Scale of Our Ecological Crisis
April 1, 1998
John Bellamy Foster, is a member of the Board of the Monthly Review Foundation, teaches sociology at the University of Oregon and is coeditor of Organization & Environment. He is… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 1998
March 1, 1998
A striking feature of the mountain of talk about the Asian crisis is that its root cause is all too often ignored The focus of the media and the pundits… READ MORE
Human Rights Imperialism
March 1, 1998
Prof. Dr. Uwe-Jens Heuer is a member of the German Bundestag and spokesman for the Party of Democratic Socialism Bundestag group on questions of law and justice. Prof. Dr. Gregor… READ MORE
The New Theology of the First Amendment: Class Privilege Over Democracy
March 1, 1998
Robert W. McChesney teaches journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the author of Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935 (1993)…. READ MORE
Marxism, Metaphors, and Ecological Politics; Rejoinder to Harvey
March 1, 1998
David Harvey teaches in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at The John Hopkins University. His books include Social Justice and the City; The Limits to Capital; The Condition… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 1998
February 1, 1998
Monthly Review was chosen for a 1997 Frederick Douglass Award, an award given annually by the North Star Fund. We were of course pleased to be so honored and thought… READ MORE
Confronting the Time Bind: Work, Family, and Capitalism
February 1, 1998
Peter Meiksins is associate professor of sociology at Cleveland State University. He is co-author of Engineering Labour (Verso, 1996) and co-editor of Rethinking the Labor Process (SUNY Press, 1998), and… READ MORE
Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education
February 1, 1998
David F. Noble, co-founder of the National Coalition for Universities in the Public Interest, teaches history at York University, Toronto. His latest book is The Religion of Technology. He is… READ MORE