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Labor History right now

This is a review of a couple of books I just wrote for the ILWU’s The Dispatcher.

Low Pay High Profile: The Global Push for Fair Labor by Andrew Ross (2004, The New Press: New York) Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization since 1870 by Beverly J. Silver (2003, Cambridge University Press: UK)

Longshore […]

Caliban and the Witch

Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation by Sylvia Federici, Autonomedia 2004

Sylvia Federici is an old friend, and a long-time member of the Midnight Notes collective on the East Coast. This book has been gestating for a long time, and it’s fantastic that it is finally out and available. It’s a […]