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CONFERENCE  |  |  |  |  | The Global Unions Conference, sponsored by Cornell University, will bring together scholars and trade unionists in New York City Feb. 9-11, 2006, to share ideas and learn from recent union initiatives in strategic corporate research, strategic global organizing and bargaining campaigns in order to more effectively take on multinational companies through global comprehensive campaigns. | |  | |  |
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BOOKS  | | | | | In Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, historian Harvey Kaye establishes Paine as the working person’s founding patriot, a champion of workers’ interests and one of the rare late 18th century leaders to publicly oppose slavery. As the author of Common Sense and The Age of Reason pamphlets, which sold hundreds of thousands of copies in the United States alone—Paine influenced the creation of the nation’s earliest labor organizations. After outlining Paine's role in shaping public opinion in pre- and post-revolutionary America, Kaye traces Paine’s influence in the United States throughout the subsequent centuries—up to the unlikely co-optation of Paine by current prominent Republicans. $25 hardback from The Union Shop Online.™ | | | | |
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 | | | | | Robert Ross, professor of sociology at Clark University, exposes the dark side of the apparel industry and how it exploits workers at home and abroad in Slaves to Fashion. The new sweatshop conditions are a product of unregulated global capitalism and associated deregulation, union erosion and exploitation of undocumented workers, Ross argues. Using historical material and economic and social data, Ross shows that after a brief 35 years of fair practices, the U.S. apparel business has once again sunk to shameful abuse and exploitation. $19.95 paperback, University of Michigan Press. | | | | |
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RESOURCES  | | | | | The 2005 Kids Count Data Book by the Annie E. Casey Foundation is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States. This report, the 16th annual report, focuses on ways to help vulnerable families overcome barriers to work and achieve financial success. To view the report online, visit http://aecf.org/kidscount/sld/databook.jsp. | | | | |
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MUSIC
 | | | | | Linda Allen’s latest CD Women’s Work features songs about women’s real work—building ships, soothing the sick, caring for children in and out of our homes and working as union leaders, teachers and builders of peace. $15 from the Labor Heritage Society.
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