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Brecher: Lessons from Hard Times Past
Znet Article, July, 22 2009
Jeremy Brecher
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We’re all struggling with how to think -- and what to do -- in the face of the “great recession.†An initial progressive response was to advocate better regulation; then Keynesian economic stimulus; now nationalization; perhaps in the future...
Brecher: Global Labor’s Forgotten Plan to Fight the Great Depression
Znet Article, March, 18 2009
Jeremy Brecher
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In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled in two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world’s labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public works. It’s a little-...
Costello: WSF: Is Another World Possible?
Znet Article, February, 14 2009
Tim Costello
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The recently concluded World Social Forum is a good gauge for assessing the state of the world's alternative social, economic and political movements.
Costello: How the American Healthcare System Got That Way
Znet Article, December, 15 2008
Tim Costello
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As Americans respond to President-elect Obama call for town hall meetings on reform the American health care system, an understanding of how that system came to be the way it is can be crucial for figuring out how to fix it.
Costello: How the American Healthcare System Got That Way
Znet Article, December, 15 2008
Tim Costello
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As Americans respond to President-elect Obama call for town hall meetings on reform the American health care system, an understanding of how that system came to be the way it is can be crucial for figuring out how to fix it.
Brecher: The Economic Crisis in Historical Perspective
Znet Article, November, 29 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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The superlatives of the global economic meltdown of 2008 are, well, superlative. Professor Noriel Roubini of New York University says the current crisis is "the largest leveraged asset bubble and credit bubble in history." The International Monet...
Brecher: Labor Confronts Global Warming
Znet Article, April, 14 2007
Jeremy Brecher
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The reality of global warming and its catastrophic consequences are today beyond debate. But American labor is caught in an intern...
