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...Susan Kang Abstract This article compares the private use of prison labor in the United States to the protections against forced labor in international law. The United States plays a prominent role in promoting labor rights and standards in its interactions with economic competitors such as China...

...Susan Kang Nezv Political Science, 2013 "v' TO . I35N, 0.2, 307-312, h Up: lidx.doi.orgI 10.1080I 07393148.2013.790715 ~l Routledge ~~ Taylor&FrancisGroup REVIEW ESSAY The Labor Question: Considering Next Steps for Organized Labor in the United States Michael D. Yates, Wisconsin Uprising: Labor...

...Taylor E. Dark, III Abstract The onset of the Great Recession raised hopes among union supporters that organized labor would be able to use the downturn to gain greater political influence and new members. But despite Democratic Party victories in 2008, unions found it quite difficult to take...

...Vincent Tirelli Abstract If the fulfillment of American democracy includes a system of higher education that provides equal means of access, opportunity and accommodation for all social classes in society, then we need to better understand how the vastly enlarged use of contingent academic labor...

...Joseph M. Schwartz Abstract This article explores why tenured faculty, particularly at major public and private research universities, often have failed to engage in collective resistance to the rise of the neoliberal university and the exploitation of “casualized” academic labor. Thirty years...

... to pay labor union fees. Justice Alito’s majority decision interprets the employment contract as a capacity contract: a device that uses the recognition of equal cognitive capacity to obscure domination. Alito ignored the vulnerability of disabled people and in-home care workers to legitimize neoliberal...

...: Racial Geography and the Defeat of Public Sector Labor Unions in Wisconsin Hannah Walker University of Washington, Seattle, WAf USA Dylan Bennett University of Wisconsin, Waukesha, WI, USA Abstract In 2011, the passage of Wisconsin Act 10 eliminated substantive collective bargaining rights for public...

... Just Transitions for the Miners: Labor Environmentalism in the Ruhr and Appalachian Coalfields Judson Abraham ASPECT (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought) Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA ABSTRACT As environmental legislation...

...Susan K. Glover Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt , by Joel Beinin , Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2015 , 176 pp., $12.99 (Paperback), ISBN 9780804798044 Networked Publics and Digital Contention: The Politics of Everyday...

...Brian Stipelman G. William Domhoff and Michael J. Webber , Class and Power in the New Deal: Corporate Moderates, Southern Democrats, and the Liberal-Labor Coalition , Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 , 288 pp. © 2013 Brian Stipelman 2013 Book Reviews 525 G...

...Brooke Ackerly Susan L. Kang , Human Rights and Labor Solidarity: Trade Unions in the Global Economy , Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2012 , 360 pp. © 2013 Brooke Ackerly 2013 Book Reviews 527 convincing theoretical framework for understanding what...

...Andrew Lawrence Abstract An historical narrative emphasizing the “counterrevolution in the social-economic sphere” of neo-liberalism’s attack worldwide on organized labor and welfare provision since the 1970s distorts or ignores the gains and transformations of collective bargaining in Germany...

...Immanuel Ness Abstract The expanding use of guest work is the wave of the future global neoliberal capitalism, but is a recurring theme in capitalism. The trade in global labor was pervasive during the Victorian age, second only to trade in finance. As the United States lost manufacturing...

...Margaret Levi; Morgen Myrdal; George Robertson New Political Science, Volume 29, Number 4, December 2007 Retnodeling the House of Labor Margaret Levi, Morgen Myrdal, and George Robertson University of Washington Even though many workers toiled under one roof the owners subcontracted much work...

...Amy Schiller; John McMahon Abstract The fantasy of automation is one of liberation from alienating tasks. Today, domestic artificial intelligence (Al) enacts this dream of frictionlessly offloading monotony. This article deploys theories of Marxist feminism, affective labor to interrogate domestic...

...Joseph G. Peschek The Corporate Rich and the Power Elite in the Twentieth Century: How They Won, Why Liberals and Labor Lost , by G. William Domhoff , New York , Routledge , 2020 , 546 pp., $59.95 (softcover), ISBN 978-0-367-25389-9 © 2021 Caucus for a New Political Science...

...Carl Swidorski Abstract This paper examines the legal restrictions on the labor movement’s right to picket and strike since the passage of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) or Wagner Act in 1935. The NLRA was seen as a statutory equivalent of the First Amendment for the labor movement...

... New Political Science, Volume 31/ Number 4/ December 2009 REVIEW ESSAY Organized Labor and Class Consciousness in the United States Michael o. Yates, Why Unions Matter, 2nd ed. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2009, 240 pp. Michael O. Yates, In and Out of the Working Class. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring...

... Catnpaign of Acadetnic Labor: Refratning the Politics of Scarcity in Higher Education* Gary Rhoades General Secretary, AAUP Introduction I appreciate the opportunity to speak to your group, the Caucus for a New Political Science. For your group emphasizes the connection between academic scholarship...

...Maria Markantonatou Abstract This article examines the perspective on labor in two critiques of “growth” as elaborated in the context of two capitalist crises: the Keynesian model of industrial development in the 1970s, and the neoliberal finance capitalist growth model of today. A landmark event...