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Worker Power Comes from Workers

What we can learn from Asian garment-worker uprisings.

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A Trillion Dollars in One Year, and No New Taxes

The Wall Street Journal editors make it clear whose side they’re on.

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Interview: Short Staffing and Work Intensification

Mike Prokosch discusses his article on short staffing, when employers intentionally hire too few workers as a menthod of work intensification.

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Issue 316: January/February 2015

Inside the World of Check-Cashing Outlets

By Deborah M. Figart and Thomas Barr

Not all financial services for the poor are equally bad—regulation makes a difference. | Read more »
Where Are Today’s Mass Movements?

By Trudy Goldberg | February 5

What we can learn from the millions who demonstrated for jobs, government relief, and collective bargaining rights in the 1930s. | Read more »
Another Gift for Corporations—Lower Tax Rates

By John Miller

The Wall Street Journal’s Yankee Swap | Read more »

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comment Remembering the “Tokyo No”
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