Dollars & Sense articles from September 1996

Dollars & Sense archives from September 1996

Putting people first? Clintonomics and post-prosperity capitalism.
September 1, 1996... "Putting People First." You remember. That was the economic manifesto the Clinton team produced for the 1992 campaign. The 25-page pamphlet indicted the supply-side economic policies of Ronald Reagan and George Bush that helped "the rich get...

The junk bond boss meets the ancient Sequoia. (efforts to preserve old-growth redwood groves owned by millionaire Charles Hurwitz)
September 1, 1996... Ancient redwoods are priceless, from an environmentalist's point of view, but now green activists are trying to attach a price tag to the trees in order to preserve them. Texas millionaire Charles Hurwitz controls one of the last groves of...

Unions get smart. (union organizing)
September 1, 1996... NEW TACTICS FOR A NEW LABOR MOVEMENT In a time of growing income inequality, welfare state retrenchment, and the rise of contingent and less stable employment, organized labor is becoming a movement once again. With the inauguration of new...

Union summer. (essays of student participants in the AFL-CIO's Union Summer program)
September 1, 1996... YOUNG ACTIVISTS DISCOVER UNIONS AREN'T HISTORY You can feel the young volunteers' energy while reading their handwritten reflections of the time they spent with the labor movement this summer. Cynics (realists?) wondered what would come of the...

Computer workers feel the byte. (efforts to organize contingent workers)
September 1, 1996... TEMP JOBS IN SILICON VALLEY As the global center of innovation in high-technology industries, Silicon Valley has grown dramatically in recent decades, while leading the nation into the new "information economy." But more recently job...

Labor has a party but no candidates - yet. (1996 Labor Party convention)
September 1, 1996... The British have one; the Canadians do too. And now at last, a Labor Party has come to the United States. The newly founded Labor Party can't claim the support of all the nation's 16 million organized workers. But all told, the nine national...

Immigrants fight back: workers centers lead where others don't.
September 1, 1996... They have the invisibility blues, these low-wage workers in New York's black market of labor. On Long Island, they are Central American women who work as maids, or men who wait on street corners to be picked up for day jobs as gardeners or in...

The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era.
September 1, 1996... To walk in the building at the crack of dawn was to be part of something big and tough, forthright and productive. For the most part the work was hard, exhausting, grimy and dull. But there was meaning in the work - making large, durable things...

The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work.
September 1, 1996... To walk in the building at the crack of dawn was to be part of something big and tough, forthright and productive. For the most part the work was hard, exhausting, grimy and dull. But there was meaning in the work - making large, durable things...

Job Shift: How to Prosper in a Workplace Without Jobs.
September 1, 1996... To walk in the building at the crack of dawn was to be part of something big and tough, forthright and productive. For the most part the work was hard, exhausting, grimy and dull. But there was meaning in the work - making large, durable things...

Half a Job: Bad and Good Part-time Jobs in a Changing Labor Market.
September 1, 1996... Most of the things you know or hear about part-time work are true: it's subject to lower wages and benefits, higher turnover, lower possibility of promotion, and lower skills, training and responsibilities. Dealing with virtually all of the...

"Worker participation": is it worth the price?
September 1, 1996... "Worker participation" is shorthand for "giving workers greater influence over managerial decisions." Such participation can range from "low level" decisions like choosing the color of the lunchroom walls to "high level" decisions like voting...