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September/October 2003

Issue 249

features

  • Maquiladora Bosses Play the China Card

    DAVID BACON

    Border companies in Mexico threaten to move to China.

  • Home Health Care Workers

    STU SCHNEIDER

    Organizing victories in California, Oregon, and Washington.

  • Innovative Labor Strategies

    AMY OFFNER

    Ten campaigns to learn from.

  • Captive Labor

    ALVARO BEDOYA

    How the agriculture industry exploits immigrant workers - legally.

  • Scripted Talk

    ADRIA SCHARF

    Company control of service workers' speech.

  • Still Up Against the Death Plan in Haiti

    Tom Reeves

the regulars

  • the short run
  • letters
  • active culture Freedom ride / Sweat-free High / Insuring writers / Where's the LUV?
  • making sense Tyson strike / Six Sigma
  • econ-atrocity Pension funds and life spans
  • primer U.S. labor law
  • comic strip of neoliberalism Armed privatization in Iraq
  • economy in numbers Unemployment
  • dollars & sense annual index