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Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith When world leaders meet in Seattle after Thanksgiving for the "pre-millennial" session of the World Trade Organization,…
Jeremy Brecher
Jeremy Brecher is a historian, author, and co-founder of the Labor Network for Sustainability. He has been active in peace, labor, environmental, and other social movements for more than half a century. Brecher is the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements, including Strike! and Global Village or Global Pillage and the winner of five regional Emmy awards for his documentary movie work.
By Jeremy Brecher A funny thing happened on the way to the New Millenium: the Old Millenium crashed. According to economist Paul…
In the Dayton agreement, the U.S. gave Milosevic a free hand in Kosovo in exchange for a settlement in Bosnia. The U.S.…
Brendan Smith For the past decade, through both Republican and Democratic administrations, the United States government has promoted a model of free-market…
Jeremy Brecher Traditionally, the majority of American union members have been blue-collar white males. Over the past quarter-century, this group became…
While the number of strikes and strikers plummeted during the 1980s and 1990s, most of the major labor struggles that did…
In the face of employer attack, the proportion of workers in unions fell from 27 percent in 1978 to 15 percent in…
This is the first in a series of articles on the history of rank-and-file labor struggles over the past 25 years.…