CONTEMPORARY LABOR ISSUES BIBLIOGRAPHY

--Kim Scipes, Ph.D.

　

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In-depth analysis of the changing US economy

and its affects on American workers (2007):

 

Kim Scipes, "Neo-Liberal Economic Policies in the United States:  The Impact on American Workers."  Z Net, February 2, 2007.  On-line at www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/2139.  Best read while listening to James McMurtry's "Can't Make It Here Any More" at http://www.soldiersofsolidarity.com/files/relatednewsandreports07/cantmakeithereanymore2507.html.

 

See also:

Bob Moser.  2008.  "Mill Hill Populism."  (On economic devastation in North Carolina.)  The Nation, May 12.  On-line at www.thenation.com/doc/20080512/moser.

Louis Uchitelle.  2008.  "The Wage That Meant Middle Class."  New York Times, April 20.  On-line at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/weekinreview/20uchitelle.html.

Joann Wypijewski, "Postcards from Ohio."  The Nation, March 17, 2008.  On-line at www.thenation.com/doc/20080317/wypijewski.  She takes a look around Ohio, just before the Democratic Primary and argues "Election '08 enlists white men in identity politics for the first time.  What will lead them, their skin or their dick?"  Talks about economic situation for especially unionized manufacturing workers.

Michael Zweig.  "The War and the Working Class."  The Nation, March 31. 2008.  On-line at www.thenation.com/doc/20080331/zweig.

Steven Greenhouse.  The Big Squeeze:  Tough Times for the American Worker.  NY:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

See section on US Economy in Course Reference List, especially works by Chalmers Johnson:  VERY IMPORTANT.

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Very important article:  David Barstow, "Message Machine:  Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand."  The New York Times, April 20, 2008.  On-line, with audio, at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?_r=1&oref=slogin.

 

ATTENTION:  Active Voices, a PNC (Purdue University North Central) student group, did a forum on our campus on April 29, 2008, whereby they looked at "The Human Costs of War."  The highlight of the presentation was a presentation by Vince Emanuele, President of the Indiana Chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW).  The entire event has been archived and can be viewed on-line at http://www.pnc.edu/live/archive/index.html, and click on "The Human Cost of War."

 

These are stories related to the "Winter Soldier:  Iraq and Afghanistan" hearings organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War that took place March 13-16, 2008 at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, MD.  (All panels are archived on-line at www.ivaw.org.)

 

"Same War.  Same Platoon.  Two Paths Since Leaving Iraq."  Christian Science Monitor, March 21, 2008.  The stories of Vincent Emanuele and Travis Pinn--Emanuele attended PNC in Fall 2007.  On-line at http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0321/p01s04-usmi.html. 

 

"Veterans Rally Against Iraq War."  Time.  March 14, 2008.  On-line at http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1722659,00.html.  For full account of "Winter Solider:  Iraq and Afghanistan," go to the web site of Iraq Veterans Against the War: http://ivaw.org/index.php.

 

Special article on up-coming "Winter Solider Hearings" in Washington, DC (March 13-16, 2008), organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War, that talks about the war and some of the affects it has had on US troops: 

Leve, Ariel.  2008.  "Patriot Missiles:  Iraq Veterans Against the War."  The (London, UK) Sunday Times, March 2.  On-line at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3444835.ece?Submitted=true.

 

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OVERVIEW OF THIS "CONTEMPORARY LABOR ISSUES BIBLIOGRAPHY" PAGE--WITH LINKS YOU SEEK (Last update of this "Overview" on September 25, 2006)

 

    As material included on this web site has increased--and as you will quickly see, I do not limit my conception of "labor issues" to just traditional trade unionism--I thought it might be helpful if I added a "Directory" to help you get to the information that you are most interested in reaching.  Each major section on this page is listed, and by clicking on the link, you will get to where you want.

 

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NEW ARTICLES ON AFL-CIO FOREIGN POLICY PROGRAM: 

       

    For on-going information and to join the campaign to get the AFL-CIO leadership to "open their books" about their foreign policy program, both historically and currently, and to get them to cut all ties with the misnamed "National Endowment for Democracy," see the web site of the Worker to Worker Solidarity Committee at www.workertoworker.net.

           

 

Kim Scipes.  2007.  "The AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program and the 2002 Coup in Venezuela:  Was the AFL-CIO Involved?"  Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, Vol. X:  133-147.  This is an updated, and peer-reviewed version of the article linked below on the Worker to Worker Solidarity Committee website dated September 25, 2006.

 

Kim Scipes.  2007.  "Is Cosatu Playing with the Devil?  Investigating the AFL-CIO and Its Solidarity Center."  South African Labour Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 5 (December-January): 15-18.  (In a pre-publication agreement with the Labour Bulletin, this article was published by MR Zine on December 22, 2006 at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes221206.html, and by ZNet on December 24, 2006 at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=2&itemID=11699.)

 

Jeb Sprague and Joe Emersberger.  2006.  "$449,965 in NED/State Department Funding for ACILS 'Solidarity Center' Program with Batay Ouvriye."  Z Net, September 30.  On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=1&itemID=11093.

 

Kim Scipes.  2006.  "The AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program and the 2002 Coup in Venezuela:  Was the AFL-CIO Involved?"  September 25.  On-line at www.workertoworker.net/afl_cio_foreign_policy_venezuela_kim_scipes.html.

 

Jeb Sprague.  2006.  "Failed Solidarity: The ICFTU, AFL-CIO, ILO, and ORIT in Haiti."  Labor Notes, June 2006.  Online at: http://labornotes.org/node/230 .

 

Kim Scipes, "Worker-to-Worker Solidarity Committee to AFL-CIO:  Cut All Ties with NED."  MRZine, April 29, 2006.  On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes290406.html.   I argue that the Solidarity Center's relationship to NED is toxic, and is a cancer growing on the democracy at the national level of the US labor movement, and should be rejected by all trade unionists.  This article reports March 6, 2006 picket line in front of AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, DC, after demo at National Endowment for Democracy headquarters.  These actions were the latest developments in a serious of actions that have placed increasing pressure on AFL-CIO foreign policy leadership, and a quick overview to developments in the campaign are provided, with links to web-based articles.  Also announces there will be a meeting sponsored by the Worker-to-Worker Solidarity Committee at the upcoming Labor Notes conference, May 5-7, in Dearborn, MI.  The following article, "A Specter is Haunting the AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy Program:  The Worker to Worker Solidarity Committee," MRZine, June 2, 2006 and on-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes020606.html, discusses the May 6 meeting at the Labor Notes Conference, and provides the Worker to Worker Solidarity Committee's web site, which is at www.workertoworker.net.  Also, you may want to see a radio interview done with Jeb Sprague on Dennis Bernstein's "Flashpoints" program on the Pacifica Radio Network--the transcript, dated June 19, 2006, has been published on-line by Upside Down World at http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/327/1/.

 

  For a more complete listing of references on the AFL-CIO foreign operations, please click here.

CONTINUING DEVELOPMENTS in AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program:

　

Working with the Latin American Solidarity Coalition and its Chicago-affiliate, Organizing Group to Say No to the NED, I have been for a long time (over 20 years) part of an effort to transform the AFL-CIO foreign policy program into a force for genuine international labor solidarity.  (My friend, Fred Hirsch, has been doing it even longer!)  At the 2005 National AFL-CIO Convention in Chicago, July 25-28, 2005, we worked to build public support for the California State AFL-CIO's "Build Unity and Trust Among Workers Worldwide" resolution, and to get it through the Convention's Resolutions Committee and out onto the Convention floor.  To do this, we made public presentations, did radio and community TV interviews, and mobilized over somewhere around 120 people on a day where the temperature was 103 degrees to engage in a public demonstration, urging passage of "Build Unity and Trust."

　

Below is a "final report" on our campaign--including an announcement of a video about it--and a listing of a number of recent publications on AFL-CIO foreign policy that I have published recently on this issue.  (For a more complete listing of writings on this subject, please go to the writings under AFL-CIO Foreign Operations--many of the more recent writings are downloadable from the web from the Worker to Worker Solidarity Committee web site at www.workertoworker.net.  I have also provided a link to "Key Recent Articles on AFL-CIO Foreign Policy" immediately below.)

　

(August 22, 2005):  ZNet published my "Reinserting Details."  (Posted on-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=19&itemID=8556.  This article argues that Tim Shorrock's recent publication on AFL-CIO foreign policy had left out some relevant details and that these needed to be reinserted and considered.

　

(August 2, 2005):  ZNet published my "AFL-CIO Foreign Policy:  Final Report from the Convention" on-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=19&itemID=8421.  This not only gives an overview of the campaign, but tells about what happened to the resolution at the convention:  it got stuffed.  But it talks about the good stuff that came out of the campaign, including Fred Hirsch and myself being interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! (which goes to over 350 radio and community TV programs around the country), and announces a video by Labor Beat that covers the highlights of the campaign.

　

(July 19, 2005):  Monthly Review's new Webzine published a piece of mine that argues the need to distance the labor movement from the Empire:  "Free Labor from the Empire:  Breaking the NED-Solidarity Center Connection," MR Webzine, July 19.  (Posted on-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/scipes190705.html.)

　

(July 10, 2005):  ZNet published my piece that focuses on the relationship between the AFL-CIO and the National Endowment for Democracy:  "An Unholy Alliance:  The AFL-CIO and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Venezuela."  ZNet, July 10.  (Posted on-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=19&itemID=8268.)

　

(July 10, 2005):  I self-published "Key Recent Articles on AFL-CIO Foreign Policy" on the Chicago Indymedia site at http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/60035.  (There has been additional items added to this listing that have been published after the initial date of July 10.)

　

(June 23, 2005):  ZNet published my piece on AFL-CIO foreign policy titled "Are AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Leaders Engaging in Dirty Tricks?  Foreign Policy Efforts Being Challenged."  ZNet, June 23.  (Posted on-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=19&itemID=8150.)

　

(May 1, 2005):  Monthly Review published my piece on AFL-CIO foreign policy, titled "Labor Imperialism Redux?  The AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy Since 1995."  I argue that any of the so-called AFL-CIO "reform" efforts are not sufficient unless they specifically address the return to labor imperialism at the highest levels of the AFL-CIO.

　

(April 1, 2004):  Labor Notes published my account of AFL-CIO involvement in the April 2002 coup attempt against Venezuela's democratically-elected president, Hugo Chavez:  "AFL-CIO in Venezuela:  Deja Vu All Over Again," Labor Notes, April 2004 (On-line at www.counterpunch.org/scipes03292004.html.)  [Incidentally, this article lists a previous web site for "surfaced" Solidarity Center documents, but that site has been subsequently reorganized:  for on-line copies of a Solidarity Center-Caracas report to the National Endowment for Democracy, reporting their active involvement in bringing together the CTV (Venezuelan Workers Confederation in Spanish) and FEDECAMARAS (a business coalition)--two leading forces in the coup attempt--see www.venezuelafoia.info/ctva1.html and www.venezuelafoia.info/ctva2.html.]

 

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MAJOR LABOR STRUGGLES TAKING PLACE CURRENTLY (and links to find out more details about them).  This is not an effort to be complete, but rather to draw attention to articles/writings that I think are extremely thought-provoking.

 

Delphi Automotive Systems:  This major parts producer has declared bankruptcy, and wants UAW (United Auto Workers) members to take a drastic cut in wages, from about $26 per hour to $10, plus cuts in benefits, pensions, etc.

 

Gindin, Sam.  2005.  "GM, the Delphi Concessions and North American Workers:  Round Two?"  The Bullet, E-Bulletin No. 5, November 14.  On-line at www.web.net/~sclstpjt2003/bullet/bullet005.html.

 

Hagensen, Melodee.  2005.  "Not Without a Fight:  Rank and File Meet to Beat Delphi and UAW."  The Uncommon Sense (Flint, Michigan's Independent, Alternative Monthly Newspaper), December 14.  On-line at http://www.downtownflint.com:8080/df/fmpro?-db=content.pro&-lay=web&-format=index.htm&status=active&home_flag=yes&-sortfield=category&-sortorder=ascending&-sortfield=article_id&-sortorder=descending&-find.

 

Shotwell, Gregg.  2006.  "The Answering Machine."  MRZine, January 28.  [A Delphi leader discusses the situation in Delphi, and demolishes many of the myths being propagated by the mainstream media.]  On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/shotwell280106.html.

 

Sustar, Lee.  2005.  "Showdown at Delphi:  What happened to the American Dream?" ZNet, November 9.  On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=19&itemID=9081.

 

Sustar, Lee.  2006.  "I Never Had the American Dream."  ZNet, June 15.  On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=19&itemID=10431.

 

 

The Goodyear Strike:  http://youtube.com/watch?v=xL27MF4qIdw

 

THE CONTINUING AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE KATRINA ON NEW ORLEANS--A look at race and class issues. 

 

NOTE:  The September-October 2006 issue of World Watch Magazine, titled "Katrina:  The Failures of Success," is a detailed look at these and related issues.  It can be obtained at www.worldwatch.org.

Arena, Jay.  2005.  "The War at Home:  New Orleans, Public Housing, and the 'Chilean Option'."  ZNet, November 12.  On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=30&itemID=9102.

 

Joseph, Pat.  2005.  "Interview with Robert Bullard:  'Race and Class are Out of the Closet--Hurricane Katrina exposes the wounds of environmental injustice."  On-line at www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200511/interview.asp.

 

Quigley, Bill.  2006.  "Robin Hood in Reverse:  Corporate and Government Looting of the Gulf Coast."  On-line at www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov06/Quigley13.htm.

 

GLOBAL WARMING--This is an issue I think working people individually and in their organizations must take much more seriously.  Click on this link if you want to connect to more information on this and other environmental issues.

 

 

THE WAR ON IRAQ

Bor, Jonathan.  2006.  "654,000 Deaths Tied to Iraq War."  Baltimore Sun, October 12.  On-line at www.countercurrents.org/iraq-bor121006.htm.  (Refers to Burnham, et. al. study below.)

 

Burnham, Gilbert, Shannon Doocy, Elizabeth Dzeng, Riyadh Lafta, and Les Roberts.  2006.  "The Human Cost of the War in Iraq:  A Mortality Study, 2002-2006."  Published by the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and the School of Medicine, Al Mustansiriya University, Baghdad, in cooperation with the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  On-line at http://web.mit.edu/CIS/pdf/Human_Cost_of_War.pdf.  (This is the study referred to by Anthony DiMaggio, below, as "The Lancet Study:  it details the study showing about 650,000 deaths in Iraq since the US invasion.)  For responses by co-author Les Roberts to criticisms of the study, see Media Lens, 2006, below.

 

Cockburn, Alexander.  2005.  "The Revolt of the Generals."  ZNet, December 7.  On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=72&itemID=9284.

 

Cogan, James.  2007.  "US Occupation Turns 3.7 Million Iraqis Into Refugees."  World Socialist Web, January 24.  On-line at www.countercurrents.org/irag-cogan240107.htm.

 

DiMaggio, Anthony.  2006.  "Damage Control:  American Corporate Media Disregards the Lancet Report...Again."  On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=21&itemID=11201.

 

Dreyfuss, Robert.  2006.  "The Iraq Study Group:  A Fatal Flaw."  The Nation, December 7.  On-line at www.thenation.com/doc/20061218/fatal_flaw.

 

Engelhardt, Tom. 

---        2005.  "How (Not) to Withdraw from Iraq." ZNet, December 2.  On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=15&itemID=9246.

---        2006.  "How to Stay in Iraq:  The Iraq Study Group Rides to the Rescue."  ZNet, December 4.  On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=15&itemID=11550.

 

Fisk, Robert. 

---        2006.  "The Iraq War:  Three Years On."  The Independent, March 22.  On-line at www.countercurrents.org/iraq-fisk220306.htm.

---        2006.  "This was a Guilty Verdict on America as Well."  The Independent, November 6.  On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=15&itemID=11348.

---        2006.  "The Empire Is Falling."  The Independent, December 8.  On-line at www.countercurrents.org/us-fisk081206.htm.

 

Kuhnhenn, James and Jonathan S. Landay.  2005.  "In Challenging War's Critics, Administration Tinkers with Truth."  Knight Ridder Newspapers, November 16.  On-line at http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/13185357.htm.  Examines Bush Administration's recent claims, and debunks key ones.

 

Lobe, Jim.  2006.  "Iraq, Overstretched Army Bring Bush New Grief."  Inter Press Service, September 26.  On-line at http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0926-03.htm.

 

Media Lens.  2006.  "Media Alert:  Lancet Report Co-Author Responds to Questions."  On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=15&itemID=11309.  This is a response to criticism of the article (Burnham, et. al., above) listing 650,000 dead in Iraq since the beginning of the US invasion.

 

Monbiot, George.  2005.  "The US Used Chemical Weapons in Iraq--and then lied about it."  The Guardian (UK), November 15.  On-line at www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1642831,00.html.

 

Moore, Michael.  2006.  "Cut and Run, The Only Brave Thing to Do."  MichaelMoore.com, November 28.  On-line at www.countercurrents.org/iraq-moore281106.htm.

Nasser, Nicola.  2007.  "US-Tailored Iraqi Oil Alarm For Producers, Consumers."  January 24.  On-line at www.countercurrents.org/iraq-nasser240107.htm.

Paulinson, Pauline.  2006.  "Depleted Uranium, Another Gift from the Imperialists."  November 16.  On-line at www.countercurrents.org/us-paulinson161106.htm.

 

Reuters.  2005.  "Leading House Democrat Urges Withdrawal From Iraq:  'It's Time to Bring Them Home."  On-line at www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines05/1117-08.htm.  Includes full text of statement by US Congressperson John P. Murtha. 

 

Scheer, Robert.  2005.  "Lying with Intelligence."  The Nation, November 21.  On-line at www.thenation.com/doc/20051121/scheer1105.

 

Schwartz, Michael.  2006.  "Seven Facts You Might Now Know About the Iraq War."  TomDispatch, August 21.  On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=15&itemID=10795.

 

Scipes, Kim.  2005.  "It's the Beginning of the End--For the Empire, Not Just the War."  ZNet, December 1.  On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=11&itemID=9233.

 

Seidman, Derek.  2005.  "'We've Seen the Inner Workings and Felt the Consequences': Iraq War Vet Pat Resta Speaks Out About the War and Occupation."  MR Zine, November 14.  On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/seidman101105.html.

 

Street, Paul.  2006.  "'It's About the Oil':  Not-So-Candid Comments from Ted Koppel."  Z Net, February 25.  On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=15&itemID=9798.

 

Thompson, Doug.  2006.  "No Way Out Soon in Iraq, Rove Tells GOP Faithful."  The Morning News (local news for Northwest Arkansas), October 11.  On-line at www.nwaonline.net/articles/2006/10/11/news/101106lrrovevisit.prt.

 

Whalen, Richard J. 2006.  "Revolt of the Generals."  The Nation, October 16.  On-line at www.thenation.com/doc/20061016/whalen.

 

THE US's LONG-STANDING RELATIONSHIP WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN

(Find more by putting "Saddam Hussein CIA" in Google):

Morris, Roger.  2003.  "A Tyrant 40 Years in the Making."  New York Times, March 14.  (Posted on-line at www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/morris.htm.)

 

Nimmo, Kurt.  2003.  "Saddam Hussein:  Taking Out the CIA's Trash."  Dissident Voice, August 2.  On-line at www.dissidentvoice.org/articles7/Nimmo_Saddam-CIA.htm.

 

Sale, Richard.  2003.  "Exclusive:  Saddam Key in Early CIA Plot."  United Press International (UPI) Intelligence Correspondent, April 10.  On-line at www.upi.com/inc/view.php?storyID=20030410-070214-6557r.

 

Shaikh, Mohamoud A.  1997.  "How West Helped Saddam Gain Power and Decimate the Iraqi Elite."  Muslimedia, August 16-31.  On-line at www.muslimedia.com/archives/features98/saddam.htm.

 

Solomon, Norman.  2006.  "Saddam's Unindicted Co-Conspirator:  Donald Rumsfeld."  Commondreams.org November 8.  On-line at www.countercurrents.org/iraq-solomon081106.htm.

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Introduction:  This labor bibliography was developed in the process of developing a course on “Contemporary Labor Issues” that I had hoped to teach during the Summer Semester of 2005 at Purdue University North Central in Westville, Indiana, but I did not get sufficient enrollment to have the course.  This course was going to focus on issues I believe are central to the revitalization and growth of the US labor movement.  Interestingly, as word has spread about the existence of this on-line labor bibliography, I have had to reorganize the web site somewhat to accommodate at least some of the references/suggestions I've received.  I also am including works on workers around the world.  This web page has continued past Summer 2005, and I hope to keep it updated fairly often over time--please check back periodically for the latest!

　

            (If you are interested in some of my qualifications for teaching this course, such as my background and publications, please go to the "Back to Index" link at the top of this page.)

 

As I noted from before, this bibliography also grew out of an incredible frustration with labor academics—even self-identified “progressive” labor academics—who are writing on contemporary labor but who rarely examine, much less use, writings by labor activists, whether rank and filers, staff members, or leaders.  What I’ve tried to do is locate and incorporate as many of these activists' writings as possible and make them available on a web site, so academics can no longer ignore them.  This, however, is not complete.  I have also sought to include works by academics who work with the labor movement on an on-going basis.  I ask from each of you reading this to send me suggestions for other items to include—and yes, you can include your own work.  Please send them to me at kscipes@pnc.edu.  (Please keep them post-1995, unless you have very specific reasons why you think older material should be included, and send this with your suggestions.  Also, it would help if you would suggest the subject heading under which they be placed and, if they are available on a web site, the specific URL.)

　

For a listing of union members as percentage of workforce and additional data, for 2004, go to http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm.

　

On-going publications where you can find writings by activists (along with engaged academics) include Labor Notes, Labor Studies Journal, Working USA, and New Labor Forum.  Another excellent source for information about working people is WIN, the Workers Independent News Service, which can be accessed at http://www.laborradio.org/, or on various radio programs/networks, such as Air America.  There are specific, labor-related web sites, including those of the AFL-CIO; the Association for Union Democracy (AUD); the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW); the Illinois Labor History Society; the International Labor Communications Association; Labor:  Studies in Working Class-Class History of the Americas; Labour Again (from the International Institute of Social History focusing on labor in Latin America); the Labor Heritage Foundation; Labor Start; Multinational Monitor, the National Labor Committee; the Northland Poster Collective; Nurses and Unions:  Brownson's Nursing Notes; Substance (a wonderful site about public education policy edited by a long-time labor activist in Chicago); Union Communications Services (excellent source of material for union stewards!); US Labor Against the War; Wisconsin Labor History Society; and Z Magazine's Labor Watch site  (and will add more as they become available).  The AFL-CIO lists some international labor support organizations and international labor research institutes at www.afl-cio.org/aboutunions/globalunions, but you have to scroll down toward the bottom of the page.  For listings of labor web sites, see this one by David Millar of University of Victory (Canada).

 

Just got turned on to a web site for working class movies:  go to http://www.rebelgraphics.org/workingclassmovies.html.

　

There are a number of organizations in the US and around the world that are organizing around sweatshops and low-waged workers in general, often in the garment and textile industries.  Below are some that I now know about--more will be listed as I learn about them.   Noted are their names and short descriptions, usually supplied by the group/organization itself, but sometimes summed up by me:  Behind the Label (Network for Local Actions Against Sweatshops); Campaign for Labor Rights (Grassroots Mobilizing Department for the US Anti-sweatshop Movement); Committee for Asian Women (a network of 30 network members in 13 Asian countries); Clean Clothes Campaign (a European network for improving conditions in the global garment industry); Global Unions (major institutions of the global trade union movement); Jobs with Justice (Campaign for Labor Rights); Labour Start (Global labor news on a daily basis); Maquiladora Solidarity Network;  Asian Workers Occupational Health, Safety and Environment Institute (a project of Global Unions); Sweatshop Watch (focuses on low-wage workers globally and nationally, but especially in California); United Students Against Sweatshops (the name says it all!); and UNITE-HERE (the major union in North American hospitality and garment industries).  And don't forget to visit the afore-mentioned National Labor Committee, whose slogan is "Putting a Human Face on the Global Economy."  For a fascinating--and excellent--comparison between the development of United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) of the 1960s, written by one heavily involved in SDS who looks for similarities and differences in the development of the two organizations, see the 2004 article by Robert J.S. Ross, "From Antisweatshop to Global Justice to Antiwar:  How the New Left is the Same and Different From the Old New Left."

　

For a collection of linked articles on the various Proposals for Restructuring the Labor Movement, including articles on the New Unity Partnership, see the Labor Notes collection at http://www.labornotes.org/nupdiscussion/index.html.  For the best single analysis of the overall problems of the labor movement--not just discussion about restructuring and/or dues remittances to unions organizing--see Jerry Tucker's piece dated March 21, 2005, and titled "U.S. Labor in Crisis:  The Current Internal Debate and the Role of Democracy in Its Revitalization."  (See my new section on the Chicago Convention in July 2005 and AFTERMATH to look at outcomes of split in the AFL-CIO.)

　

Regarding the entries:  I have not read all of them as of now, although I have read many.  I've included sources if I'm familiar with that author's other works and think anything by that author is worth considering.  I've included material that I've seen cited favorably by others who I respect.  And some, simply, looked interesting to me and worth checking out.  Each should be read critically.

　

　

SUBJECT LISTINGS

　

I have grouped materials by general subject, although I imagine some folks might quibble with placement.  In any case, I have changed this bibliography so as to allow me more leeway in what I can include.  I now have three categories, with most of the works on the first two pertaining to the US:  (1)  Changes in the US Labor Movement; (2) Affects of Industrial Restructuring on Labor; and (3) Workers around the world. 

　

SECTION 1, Changes in the US Labor Movement:  AFL-CIO Foreign Operations; Central Labor Councils; Community Organizing/Organizations; Electoral Politics; General; Immigrant Workers; International Labor Solidarity; Labor Communications, Labor Democracy; Labor Education, Labor History; Labor Organizing; Labor Revitalization; Labor Theory, Race; Shopfloor Organizing/Struggles; Specific Labor Organizations and/or Struggles; and Women Workers.  Note that I do not generally refer to the Industrial Relations literature—my focus is activism from a rank and file empowerment perspective—and I do not focus on labor law:  these are areas that others know much more about and focus on more intently.  Also, while I do include a few historical sources, in general it is only because I think there is something specific we can learn from the past that might be worth considering today.  NEW ADDITION:   In light of the split in the AFL-CIO at and around the Chicago Convention in July 2005, I have added a number of new entries that discuss this, either in anticipation or as part of an analysis of ramifications.  NEW ADDITION, May 6, 2008:  There is growing contestation within SEIU (Service Employees International Union) over its direction, so I've set up a new section on SEIU to share some of the materials I am aware of.

　

SECTION 2, Affects of Industrial Restructuring on Labor and Working People.  This will be developed in general and by industry, although probably won't be real detailed.  Automobile, Garments/Textiles, Grocery Work/Distribution, Hotels and Hospitality, Nursing Homes, and Telecommunications

　

SECTION 3, Workers Around the World.  General Overview, and countries covered include Barbados, Brazil, Canada, China, Indonesia, Mexico, The Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, United Kingdom, and Venezuela.

　

In short, this is my idiosyncratic effort to provide references that I think can help us shed light on and address issues that I think are critical to labor’s well-being in the US, and at least somewhat, around the world..  I hope it will be widely shared and used.  It will be periodically updated, as I get the time and new material.  Please send suggestions as to what might be added. 

　

　

　

COLLECTIONS REFERRED TO HEREIN

　

Bandy, Joe and Jackie Smith, eds. 2005. Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest and the Neoliberal Order. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Bronfenbrenner, Kate, Sheldon Friedman, Richard W. Hurd, Rudolph A. Oswald, and Ronald L. Seeber, eds.  1998.  Organizing to Win:  New Research on Union Strategies.  Ithaca and London:  Cornell University Press.

Cornfield, Daniel B. and Holly J. McCammon, eds., “Labor Revitalization:  Global Perspectives and New Initiatives.”  Research in the Sociology of Work, Vol. 11.  Amsterdam:  Elsevier/JAI.

Fraser, Steve and Joshua B. Freeman, eds.  1997.  Audacious Democracy:  Labor, Intellectuals, and the Social Reconstruction of America.  Boston and New York:  Houghton Mifflin.

Gonzales, Gilbert C., Raul A. Fernandez, Vivian Price, David Smith and Linda Trinh Vo, eds.  2004.  Labor Versus Empire:  Race, Gender, and Migration.  New York and London:  Taylor and Francis Books. 

Green, William C. and Ernest J. Yanarella, eds.  1996.  North American Auto Unions in Crisis.  Albany:  State University of New York Press.

Jose, A.V., ed.  2002.  Organized Labour in the 21st Century.  Geneva:  International Institute for Labour Studies.

Lynd, Staughton, ed.  1996.  “We Are All Leaders”: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s.  Urbana and Chicago:  University of Illinois Press.

Mantsios, Gregory, ed.  1998.  A New Labor Movement for a New Century.  New York:  Monthly Review Press.

Milkman, Ruth, ed.  2000.  Organizing Immigrants:  The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California.  Ithaca and London:  Cornell University Press.

Milkman, Ruth and Kim Voss, eds.  2004.  Rebuilding Labor:  Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement.  Ithaca and London:  Cornell University Press.

Mort, Jo-Ann, ed.  1998.  Not Your Father’s Union Movement:  Inside the AFL-CIO.  London and New York:  Verso.

Nissen, Bruce, ed.

---        1999.  Which Direction for Organized Labor?  Essays on Organizing, Outreach, and Internal Transformations.  Detroit:  Wayne State University Press.

---        2002.  Unions in a Globalized Environment:  Changing Borders, Organizational Boundaries, and Social Roles.  Armonk, NY and London:  M.E. Sharpe.

Panitch, Leo and Colin Leys, eds. 2001. Socialist Register 2001: Working Classes, Global Realities. London: Merlin.

Perusek, Glenn and Kent Worcester, eds.  1995.  Trade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change, 1960-1990s.  New Jersey: Humanities Press.

Stromquist, Shelton and Marvin Bergman, eds.  1997.  Unionizing the Jungles:  Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meatpacking Industry.  Iowa City:  University of Iowa Press.

Tillman, Ray M. and Michael S. Cummings, eds.  1999.  The Transformation of U.S. Unions:  Voices, Visions, and Strategies from the Grassroots.  Boulder and New York:  Lynne Rienner, Publishers.

Turner, Lowell, Harry C. Katz, and Richard W. Hurd, eds.  2001.  Rekindling the Movement:  Labor's Quest for Relevance in the 21st Century.  Ithaca and London:  Cornell University Press.

Waterman, Peter and Ronaldo Munck, eds.  1999.   Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization:  Alternative Union Models in the New World Order.  London: Macmillan:

　

TO SUBJECT LISTINGS

　

SECTION 1:  Changes in the US Labor Movement:

　

　

AFL-CIO Foreign Operations

　

Ancel, Judy.  2000.   “On Building an International Solidarity Movement:  A Response to Kim Scipes.”  Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2, Summer: 26-35.  [Posted in English on LabourNet Germany at www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/ancel1.html.]

 

Andrews, Gregg.  1991.  Shoulder to Shoulder?  The American Federation of Labor, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1924.  Berkeley and Los Angeles:  University of California Press.

 

Armstrong, Robert, Hank Frundt, Hobart Spaulding and Sean Sweeney.  1988.  Working Against Us:  The American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD) and the International Policy of the AFL-CIO.  New York:  North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).

 

Banks, Andy.  1998.  "New Voice, New Internationalism" in Mort, ed.: 286-303.

 

Barry, Tom and Debra Preusch.  1986.  AIFLD In Central America:  Agents as Organizers.  Albuquerque, NM:  The Resource Center.

 

Batay Ouvriye Labor Center (Haiti).  2006.  "On Sprague's Alleged Smoking Gun."  January 10.  On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=55&itemID=9504.

 

Battista, Andrew.  2002.  "Unions and Cold War Foreign Policy in the 1980s:  The National Labor Committee, the AFL-CIO, and Central America."  Diplomatic History, Vol. 26, No. 3, Summer: 419-451.

 

Berger, Harry W.  1967.  "American Labor Overseas." The Nation, January 16: 80-84.

 

Bernstein, Aaron.  1985.  "Is Big Labor Playing Global Vigilante?'  Business Week, November 4: 92-94.

 

Blain, Mike.  2001.  "Union Delegates Call on AFL-CIO to 'Come Clean' on International Activities."  Posted on the web site of the Boston Independent Media Center at http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/3072.

 

Boyer, Sandy.  1986.  "Here's Who the AFL-CIO is Funding in South Africa."  Labor Notes, December:  4.

 

Bronstein, Phil and David Johnston.  1985.  "US Funding Anti-left Fight in Philippines."  San Francisco Examiner, July 21:  1+.

 

Buehl, Paul.  1999.  Taking Care of Business:  Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor.  New York and London:  Monthly Review Press.

 

Cantor, Daniel and Juliet Schor.  1987.  Tunnel Vision:  Labor, the World Economy, and Central America.  Boston:  South End Press.

 

Carew, Anthony. 

---        1998.  "The American Labor Movement in Fizzland:  The Free Trade Union Committee and the CIA."  Labor History, Vol. 39, No. 1: 25-42.

---        1999.  “The Origins of CIA Financing of AFL Programs.”  Covert Action Quarterly, No. 67, Spring-Summer: 56-60. 

 

Ciment, James and Immanuel Ness.  1999.  “NED and the Empire’s New Clothes.”  Covert Action Quarterly, No.67, Spring-Summer: 65-68.

 

Collier, Robert.  2004.  “Old Relationships Die Hard:  A Response to Stan Gacek’s Defense of the AFL-CIO Position on Venezuela.”  New Labor Forum, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer.

 

Eckstein, Enid.  1986.  "What is the AFL-CIO Doing in the Philippines?"  Labor Notes, July: 5.

 

Eisenhower, Kay.  1991.  "AFL-CIO Agency Offers Cash to Filipino Union Leader for Vote on US Bases Treaty."  Labor Notes, November: 1, 6.

 

Ellner, Steve and Fred Rosen.  2002.  "Crisis in Venezuela:  The Remarkable Fall and Rise of Hugo Chavez."  NACLA Report on the Americas, July/August.  (On-line at www.nacla.org/art_display.php?art=2092.)

 

Filipelli, Ronald L. 1989.  U.S. Labor in Italy, 1943-1953.  Stanford, CA:  Stanford University Press.

 

Frutiger, Dean.  2002.  “AFL-CIO China Policy:  Labor’s New Step Forward or the Cold War Revisited?”  Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3: 67-80.

 

Gacek, Stan.

---        2004a.  “Lula and Chavez:  Differing Responses to the Washington Consensus.”  New Labor Forum, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring.  [Posted on http://forbin.qc.edu/newlaborforum/html/13_1article3.html.]

---        2004b.  “Stanley Gacek Replies” [to Robert Collier].  New Labor Forum, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer.

---        2005.  "A Rejoinder to 'Revolution and Counter-revolution' by Lee Sustar."  New Labor Forum, Vol. 14, No. 3.  (I have linked to the version that Sustar published on the web site "Selves and Others"--at Sustar's suggestion--and Gacek's "Rejoinder" is within Sustar's piece, which is on-line at www.selvesandothers.org/article10406.html.)

 

Garver, Paul.  1989.  "Beyond the Cold War."  Labor Research Review, No. 13, Spring:  61-71.

 

Hill, Herbert.  1993.  "The CIA in National and International Labor Movements."  International Journal of Politics, Culture and society, Vol. 6, No. 3: 405-407.

 

Hirsch, Fred. 

---        1974.  An Analysis of Our AFL-CIO Role in Latin America or Under the Covers With the CIA.  San Jose, CA:  self-published. 

---        n.d.  An Open Letter to the Labor Movement:  The AIFLD, International Trade Secretariats and Fascism in Chile.  San Jose, CA:  self-published.

---        2002.  "Eyewitness to Nightmare:  Unions Under Siege in Columbia, With US Aid."  The Progressive Populist, July.  (On-line at www.populist.com/02.7.Hirsch.html.)

---        2003.  "Report on AFL-CIO International Affairs Meeting."  Posted on October 23 on LaborNet at http://www.labornet.org/news/1003/hirsch.htm.

---        2004.  "Build Unity and Trust With Workers Worldwide."  (Includes Resolution No. 6 from 2004 California State AFL-CIO Biannual Convention.)  On-line at www.labournet.net/world/0407/hirsch.html.

---        2004.  "Venezuela:  A People Firm Against Empire."  Social Policy, Fall.  (On-line at www.mltoday.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=57.)

---        2005.  "AFL-CIO Foreign Policy in Venezuela."  ZNet, June 18.  (Posted on-line at www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Labor/AFL_CIO_Venezuela.html.)

 

Hirsch, Fred and Virginia Muir.  1987.  “A Plumber Gets Curious About Exporting McCarthyism” in Ann Fagan Ginger and David Christiano, eds., The Cold War Against Labor (2 volumes).  Berkeley:  Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute:  723-768.

 

Howard, Stuart.  1985.  "In Our Name--AIFLD in Central America."  International Labour Reports, No. 12, November-December 11-14.

 

Hoyt, Katherine.  2002.  "Concerns Over Possible AFL-CIO Involvement in Venezuela Coup Led to February Picket."  Labor Notes, May.  Posted at www.labornotes.org/archives/2002/05/b.html.

 

International Labour Reports.

---        1984.  "CIA in New Zealand."  January-February: 7.

---        1985.  "Central America."  November-December:  11-14.

---        1986a.  "France."  January-February:  7-10.

---        1986b.  "Africa."  May-June:  19-22.

---        1987.  "Central America."  May-June:  7-14.

---        1989.  "National Endowment for Democracy:  Winning Friends?."  May-June:  7-13.

 

Kelber, Harry.  2004.  "AFL-CIO's Dark Past," a six-part series.  Posted at www.laboreducator.org/darkpast.htm  Individual articles from this series:

---        ---    "Meany Hired a Former Top Communist To Run AFL-CIO's International Affairs," November 8.  www.laboreducator.org/darkpast1.pdf.

---        ---    "AFL is Funder for Covert Activity by CIA In Long-standing Ties with Spy Agency," November 15.  www.laboreducator.org/darkpast2.pdf

---        ---    "US Labor Secretly Intervened in Europe, Funded to Fight Pro-communist Unions," November 22.  www.laboreducator.org/darkpast3.pdf

---        ---    "US Labor Reps. Conspired to Overthrow Elected Governments in Latin America," November 29.  www.laboreducator.org/darkpast4.pdf

---        ---    "Kirkland Built a Secret Global Empire With US Funds to Control Foreign Labor," December 6.  www.laboreducator.org/darkpast5.pdf

---        ---    "Do Solidarity Center's Covert Operations Help American Labor on Global Problems?," December 13.  www.laboreducator.org/darkpast6.pdf

 

Kelber, Harry. 

---        2005.  "90% of Solidarity Center's Annual Budget Comes from Payoffs by US Government."  "Labor Talk of June 29," The Labor Educator.  (On-line at www.laboreducator.org/solcenter.htm.)

---        2005.  "Is AFL-CIO's International Solidarity Center a Subsidiary of the US State Department?"  "Labor Talk of November 9," The Labor Educator.  (On-line at www.laboreducator.org/intlsol.htm.)

 

Kwitney, Jonathan.  1984.  "The Corruption of Domestic Organizations:  The AFL-CIO" (Chapter 20) in Endless Enemies.  New York:  Congdon and Weed.

 

LaBotz, Dan.  1998.  "Sweeney in Mexico:  A New Direction in AFL-CIO Foreign Policy."  Labor Notes, March.  (On-line at www.labornotes.org/archive/1998/0398/0398a.html.)

 

Larson, Simeon.  1975.  Labor and Foreign Policy:  Gompers, the AFL and the First World War, 1914-1918.  Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses.

 

Latin American Solidarity Coalition.  2005.  "Call for Support for 'Build Trust and Unity With Workers Worldwide' Resolution.  Posted at www.lasolidarity.org/call.shtml.

 

Lee, Siu Hin.  2005.  "Labor's China Syndrome:  AFL-CIO, Solidarity Center, NED and the Neocons--The Unholy Alliance."  Action LA, June.  (Posted on-line at http://www.actionla.org/features/view.php?id=233&PHPSESSID=785eb7fd35b49702b09be8ef75c41c11 .)

 

Lens, Sid.  1967.  "Labor and the CIA." The Progressive, April: 25-39.

 

Luhan, J. Michael.  1986.  "AIFLD's Salvadorean Labor Wars."  Dissent, Summer: 340-350.

 

Maas, Peter.  1986.  "Selling Out:  How an Ex-CIA Agent Made Millions Working for Qaddafi."  The New York Times Magazine, April 13: 26-32.

 

Morris, George.  1967.  CIA and American Labor:  The Subversion of the AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy.  New York:  International Press.

 

Morrison, Alastair.  1983.  "Unions Linked to the CIA."  New Zealand Times, October 30:  1+.

 

Nack, David.  1999.  “The American Federation of Labor Confronts Revolution in Russia and Early Soviet Government, 1905 to 1928:  Origins of Labor’s Cold War.”  Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of History, Rutgers University.

 

Newman, Jamie and Charles Walker.  2002.  "Cloaks and Daggers:  The 'AFL-CIA' and the Venezuelan Coup."  Washington Free Press, No. 58, July/August.  Posted at www.washingtonfreepress.org/58/cloaksDaggers.htm.

 

Newsletter of International Labour Studies.  1989.  "USA:  Beyond Trade Union Imperialism."  Newsletter of International Labour Studies, No. 40-41, January-April.

 

Quaccia, Jon.  2005.  "The AFL-CIO and the NED:  National Endowment for Death Squads?"  Agenicia Latinamericano de Informacion y Analisis-Dos (Alia2).  (Posted on-line at www.alia2.net/article3302.html in English.)

 

Rachleff, Peter.  2000.  “Rupture or Continuity?”  New Politics, Vol. 7, No. 4, New Series, Whole Number 28, Winter www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue28/rachle28.htm.

 

Radosh, Ronald.  1969.  American Labor and United States Foreign Policy.  New York:  Random House.

 

Richards, Yevette.  2004.  "The AFL-CIO and South Africa," Chapter 90 in Conversations with Maida Springer:  A Personal History of Labor, Race and International Relations.  Pittsburgh:  University of Pittsburgh Press.

 

Robinson, William I. and Jonah Gindin.  2005.  "The Battle for Global Civil Society."  ZNet, June 13.  Posted on-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=11&itemID=8069.

 

Romauldi, Serafino.  1967.  Presidents and Peons:  Memories of a Labor Ambassador in Labor America.  New York:  Funk and Wagnals.

 

Ruiz, Alberto.  2004.  "The Question Remains:  What is the AFL-CIO Doing in Venezuela?"  Posted on Z Magazine's web site at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?itemID=5074&sectionID=45.

 

Schmidt, George N.  1978.  The American Federation of Teachers and the CIA.  Chicago:  Substitutes United for Better Schools.  (Classic study, hopefully will be republished before long.  For more information, go to www.substancenews.com, through which Schmidt can be contacted.)

 

Scipes, Kim. 

---        1987.  “AFL-CIO’s International Bulletin is Sophisticated Misinformation.”  Labor Notes, January:  15.

---        1987.  “Picketers Challenge AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy.”  Labor Notes, May: 12.

---        1989.  “Trade Union Imperialism in the U.S. Yesterday:  Business Unionism, Samuel Gompers and AFL Foreign Policy.”  Newsletter of International Labour Studies [Institute of Labor Education, Research and Information, The Hague, The Netherlands], Nos. 40-41, January-April: 4-20.

---        1989.  "The AFL-CIO Meddles in the Philippines."  The Progressive, November: 33.

---        1993.  "Book Review:  Workers of the World Undermined: American Labor's Role in US Foreign Policy by Beth Sims."  Z Magazine, November: 61-62.

---        1996.  Chapter 5, "Organization in Cebu, " in Kim Scipes, KMU:  Building Genuine Trade Unionism in the Philippines, 1980-1994.  Quezon City, Metro Manila:  New Day Publishers.  (Available from http://www.kabayancentral.com/book/newday/mb1009609.html.)

---        1997.  “What is the AFL-CIO Doing in the Third World?”  NACTA Voice, Fall.  On-line at www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8425/AFL-CIA1.HTM?200625 .  [NACTA  Voice is the journal of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association of the United States, but is longer available at the original URL:  use this one instead.]

---        1998.  "CIA, AFL-CIO and Pinochet."  December 2.  On-line at www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/42a/126.html.

---        2000.  “It’s Time to Come Clean:  Open the AFL-CIO Archives on International Labor Operations.”  Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2, Summer:  4-25.  [Posted on-line in English by LabourNet Germany at www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/scipes2.html]

---        2000.  "Building International Labour Solidarity:  Escalating the Struggle Within the AFL-CIO."  Posted on the Z Magazine web site at www.zmag.org/intlsol.htm, but no longer available.

---        2002.  “AFL-CIO and Venezuela:  Return of Labor Imperialism, or a Mistaken Reaction?”  Posted on the Z Magazine web site, at www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/12128 on May 2.

---        2004.  “AFL-CIO Refuses to ‘Clear the Air’ on Foreign Policy, Operations.” Labor Notes, February: 2.  (Article begun in newsletter, but complete article—with reference listing—on web site at http://labornotes.org/node/957.)

---        2004.  “AFL-CIO in Venezuela:  Déjà vu All Over Again.”  Labor Notes, April: 5. On-line at www.counterpunch.org/scipes03292004.html.

---        2004.  “California AFL-CIO Rebukes Labor's National Level Foreign Policy Leaders.”  Labor Notes, September: 14.  (Article introduced in newsletter, carried in whole on web site at  www.labornotes.org/archives/2004/09/articles/h.html. A more complete, un-edited, version of this article is at www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/7918.)