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Twin Peaks and a Phat Farm

I’ve taken to big bike rides up the steepest hills around. Lately, I’ve been heading to the top of Twin Peaks a couple of times a week, up and down Potrero Hill, McLaren Park, Bernal Heights, Nob Hill and even Hawk Hill. Here’s a photo I took standing at the top of Hawk Hill in […]

The Impossible Job

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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 […]