Issue 249: September/October 2003

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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