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BOOKS  |  |  |  |  | Jared Bernstein’s new book, All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy, describes how our society and government have emphasized individualism to the point that our national problems are starving us as a nation. Bernstein, senior economist and director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute, proposes a “common sense” approach modeled after that of U.S. revolutionary Thomas Paine, one that protects individual freedom but includes collective approaches, such as working constructively through government to solve such major problems as health care and stagnant wages. Paperback, $12, available from Berrett-Koehler Publishers. | |  | |  |
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 | | | | | Justice on the Job: Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective Bargaining in the United States, edited by Richard N. Block, Sheldon Friedman, Michelle Kaminski and Andy Levin, includes articles by top-name researchers who examine the current state of workers’ freedom to gain a voice at work and bargain together. The book offers a comprehensive look at the obstacles facing America’s workers who seek to join unions in the 21st century. The book offers several solutions to the lack of freedom to form unions, including allowing members-only representation of nonmajority unions, regulating staffing agencies and using union pension funds to leverage support for unions. Hardcover, $54, and paperback, $22, available from The Union Shop Online™. | | | | |
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 | | | | | Although the modern feminist movement in the 1960s is well known, less known is the working women’s movement that began laying the groundwork for pay and workplace equity as early as the 1930s. These pioneering women argued that gender differences must be accommodated and equality could not always be achieved by applying an identical standard of treatment to men and women. In The Other Women's Movement, historian Dorothy Sue Cobble illuminates the ideas that inspired them and the reforms they secured from employers and the state. They sought to end unfair gender discrimination, receive fair compensation and time to care for their families. Paperback, $29.95, available from The Union Shop™. | | | | |
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 | | | | | The Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), a research center focused on economic development at Columbia University, has just published a new manual for journalists, Covering Labor: A Reporter’s Guide to Workers’ Rights in a Global Economy, edited by Anya Schiffrin and Liza Featherstone. The manual includes a history of the workers’ rights movement in the United States, a guide to international labor standards and information on consumer boycotts and union activities around the world. $15 plus a stamped addressed envelope to Ariel Schwartz, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, Room 819, International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th St., New York, NY 10027. To learn more, visit www2.gsb.columbia.edu/ipd/j_publications.html. | | | | |
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WEBSIGHTING  | | | | | The Labor Research Association, a New York City-based nonprofit research and advocacy organization, provides research and educational services for trade unions. At www.lraonline.org, you will find some of the latest research on issues such as the growing political power of the Fortune 500 companies, the connection between poverty and immigration and the decline in real wages. | | | | |
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