Notes from the Editors, March 1999
March 1, 1999
If the United States has ever had a “welfare state,” Social Security must surely be the heart of it. In the world’s most predatory capitalism, this is the closest thing… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Movements
Notes from the Editors, February 1999
February 1, 1999
Back in December, while the January issue was going to press, the U.S. and Britain were bombing Iraq, and Congress was impeaching Bill Clinton. Our publication schedule spares us the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 1999
January 1, 1999
Ideology comes, as we all know, in many guises, some more subtle and insidious than others. Children in the United States learn very early to think that capitalism means good… READ MORE
Braverman and the Class Struggle
January 1, 1999
Michael Yates is a labor educator and professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He is the author of Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs and Why Unions Matter… READ MORE
On Twenty-Five Years With Braverman’s ‘Labor and Monopoly Capital’ (or, How Did Control and Coordination of Labor Get Into the Software So Quickly?)
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
Notes from the Editors, November 1998
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
On Gender and Class in U.S. Labor History
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
Notes from the Editors, September 1998
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
Globalization on Trial: Crisis and Class Struggle in East Asia
September 1, 1998
David McNally teaches political science at York University, Toronto, and is author of Against the Market: Political Economy, Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique (1993). � Can someone find me… READ MORE
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