cover of issue

March/April 1999

Issue 233

features

  • Japan's Recession

    BILL TABB

    The 800-Pound Crisis

  • Tax Reform Follies

    CHUCK COLLINS AND JOHN MILLER

    A Preview of Coming Distractions

  • Special Section: Trade


    • Sweatshop Blues

      CHARLES KERNAGHAN

      Companies Love Misery

    • The Continuing Threat from Trade Negotiations

      DANIEL KRAKER AND KRISTIN DAWKINS

    • NAFTA Takes Over the Hemisphere?

      WENDY CALL

      An Interview with Carlos Beas Torres on the Free Trade Area of the Americas

  • Anarchism Faces the '90s

    ABBY SCHER

the regulars

  • lettersToo Much Big Brother
  • the short runFreezing Out Workers at Ben & Jerry's
  • active cultureWorkshop Raids Challenged / Student Movement for SRI
  • commentManifesto Destiny: The Enduring Sexiness of Karl Marx
  • making senseThe Dollar and Its Rival / Exxon-Mobil: The Granddaddy of Mergers / Welfare to Work: Pain in Wisconsin
  • ask dr. dollarProductivity, Bargaining Power, and Wages
  • economy in numbersA National Disgrace—U.S. Leads in Human Deprivation