Labor

Can Graduate Student Teaching Survive?

By Gabriel Winant / Dissent Magazine

If graduate students don't want to find themselves replaced by video lectures delivered by “information curators,” collective action will be essential.

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How The Media's Recent Defense of Using "Illegal Immigrant" Misses an Entire History

By Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Wall Street's Plan to Push Obama to Betray Those Who Elected Him

By William K. Black / Benzinga

Obama Sends Up Trial Balloon on Social Security Cuts Through Lying Citigroup Bankster

By Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

The People Who Elected Obama Don't Want Cuts to Social Security and Medicare

By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Fast Food Workers Launch Strikes Across New York City

America Didn’t “End” Slavery After the Civil War -- We Simply Exported It

How Walmart and Other Huge Companies Support Horrific Conditions That Kill Workers

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10 Ways Proposition 32 Would Hurt California and Catapult the Conservative Agenda in the State

Matthew Fleischer / Frying Pan News

5 Disturbing Signs Romney Would Steer Us to Towards a Capitalist Dictatorship

Juan Cole / Informed Comment

Stop Charles Munger Jr. from Buying California's Election

Editorial Staff / AlterNet

California Voters: What You Need to Know About Important State Ballot Initiatives

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

What Happened When I Infiltrated One of the Most Secretive and Powerful Republican Organizations in the Country

Matthew Fleischer / Frying Pan News

Major Retailer Urges Workers To Take 'Civics Course' With Anti-Obama Content

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Marijuana Prohibition Is Hanging on by Its Final Thread -- There's a Bright Future on the Horizon

Doug Fine / AlterNet

The Significance of Jerry Tucker

Bill Fletcher, Jr., Fernando E. Gapasin / AlterNet

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney Both Believe Crazy Idea That Government Doesn't Create Jobs

Les Leopold / AlterNet

Why Big Bucks Donors Don't Want President Obama to Champion Social Security

Dean Baker / Comment Is Free

Why the Protestant Work Ethic Is a Menace to Society

Robert S. Becker / AlterNet

Unexpected Ways That Bicycling Is Proving a Boon for Business

Jay Walljasper / AlterNet

How a Mitt-Style Increase in Military Spending Might Cost You Your Job

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Why Are There So Few Female Plutocrats?

Chrystia Freeland / The Penguin Press

No, Mexico’s Not Winning the ‘Drug War’

Nyki Salinas-Duda / In These Times

A Scary New Form of Depression Is Emerging That Doctors Don't Know How to Treat ... And Its Causes Are Economic

Charles Hugh Smith / Of Two Minds

Memo from Chicago: We Stood Up to the Bullies, But the Fight Isn't Over

Kirstin Roberts / Socialist Worker

Plutocrat Bosses to American Employees: Vote for Romney – Or Else

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Increasing the Number of Republicans in Congress Means Billions More for the 1 Percent, Study Shows

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Romney's Bain Capital Is Sending a Bunch of High-Tech Jobs to China on the Day Before the Election

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

'America the Possible': How We Can Reclaim the American Dream and a Just Society

James Gustave Speth / Yale University Press

Urban Releaf: How One Community Group Is Saving Urban Neighborhoods and Creating Jobs

Rachel Morello-Frosch , Manuel Pastor / AlterNet

Walmart, the Most Powerful Company in the World, Admits that Protests and Strikes Lead to Wage Increases

Matt Stoller / Naked Capitalism

Not Just a Union Buster: Why Some of the Nation’s Most Vociferously Anti-Gay Religious Activists Are Backing California's Prop 32

Matthew Fleischer / Frying Pan News

Strikes at Walmart Stores, Warehouses Spread to 12 States: Is the Retail Giant in Trouble?

Amy Goodman / Democracy Now

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