January 1, 1999
Joan Greenbaum is a professor of computer information systems at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York,and visiting professor at the University of Oslo,Norway. She is the author of… READ MORE
November 1, 1998
There’s been a lot of discussion in MR about the implications of “globalization.” We don’t intend to repeat the arguments here, but we recently received a communication that brings into… READ MORE
November 1, 1998
Johanna Brenner is coordinator of women’s studies at Portland State University in Oregon and the author of Women and the Politics of Class (Monthly Review Press, 2000). She has written… READ MORE
September 1, 1998
The left has more than once heard calls for a “third way”. In decades gone by, people talked about a “third way” between Communism and capitalism, which was social democracy…. READ MORE
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
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
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
December 1, 1997
Elly Leary, a former assembler at the now-closed GM-Farmingham plant, currently works as a clerical at Boston University where she is Vice President ofUAW 2324.Jean Alonso, a retired assembler in… READ MORE
October 1, 1997
We are writing at the end of August. The two main events of the summer have been (1) the apparent ending of the long stock-market boom of the last few… READ MORE
July 1, 1997
Ellen Meiksins Wood is co-editor of Monthly Review. After a long period of sustained attack by governments of various stripes, a steady deterioration of working and living standards, and declines… READ MORE