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September/October 2001

Issue 237

features

  • U.S. Banks and the Dirty Money Empire

    JAMES PETRAS

  • Sweatshops 101

    DARA O'ROURKE

    Monitoring Apparel Production Around the World

  • Labor and Democracy in South Africa

    FRANCO BARCHIESI

    Where to Now?

  • Shifting Gears

    THAD WILLIAMSON

    From the RDP to the GEAR Plan

  • Social-Movement Unionism in South Africa

    RAVI NAIDOO

    A Strategy for Working-Class Solidarity

  • Dying to Serve You

    GREGORY F. DeLaurier

    Violence in the Retail Workplace

  • Reducing Official Poverty is Not Enough

    ROBERT CHERRY

    How Reforming the Tax System Can Help

  • Finland Experiments with a Six-Hour Work Day

    ELLEN MUTARI and DEBORAH M. FIGART

    Family Friendly Policy?

  • Next Steps for the Living-Wage Movement

    CHRIS TILLY

  • Surplus Value Day

    ALEJANDRO REUSS

the regulars

  • letters
  • the short run
  • active cultureWriters Battle Media Companies / College Students Oppose Private Prisons
  • commentCanadian Dream
  • making senseRead All About It / A Cracked Foundation for Spain's Economy / Un-FAIR to Small Farmers
  • in reviewA World, Not a Nation
  • ask dr. dollarWhat's the difference between GDP and GNP?
  • economy in numbersGetting Back More Than They Give
  • primerDemocratizing Brazil