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Have you noticed how far a newscast will go to slap a “local interest” angle on an otherwise perfectly newsworthy international story, as if we couldn’t possibly care about something happening on the other side of the globe without seeing another American somehow involved?  In this video Inside Government TV interviews author and long-time activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. about his book, co-authored with Fernando Gapasin, Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice. Speaking from the landmark activist gathering place Busboys and Poets, Fletcher addresses the problems facing organized labor and the need [more...] Jeff Sallaz’s book The Labor of Luck: Casino Capitalism in the United States and South Africa has recently been honored with the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Labor and Labor Movements. The award goes to a book that exemplifies the best research into “unions as social movements, work and [more...] |
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