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Regional Labor Review

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YEAR ISSUE TITLE AUTHOR
2007 Spring Will New York's Recovery Stall in a National Economic Downshift? Gregory DeFreitas, Bhaswati Sengupta
2007 Spring Protecting Human Rights in a Global Economy: Government Responses to Day Labor Markets Gregory Maney, et.al.
2007 Spring New Union Initiatives on Job Creation and Affordable Housing: A Conversation with the AFL-CIO's Roger Clayman Rachel Kreier
2007 Spring The Future of Work: New Thinking on More Humane Possibilities; Book Review of Labor of Fire, by Bruno Gulli Anne O'Byrne
2007 Spring Hollywood's Take on the Working-Class Writer; Film Review of: Factotum, directed by Bent Hamer Russell Harrison
2007 Spring Snapshots of Local Labor Activities in 2006 RLR Editors
2006 Fall Anxious Anniversary: Is Recession Stalking the 5-Year-Old Recovery? Gregory DeFreitas
2006 Fall Keeping Coverage: A Public-Private Health Insurance Model For Low-Wage Workers Richard Winsten, Michael Hirsch
2006 Fall Can Construction Unions Organize New Immigrants? A Conversation with the Carpenters' Tony Martinez Gregory DeFreitas
2006 Fall Pay or Play: Why Youth Work in the United States Yasemin Besen
2006 Fall What Really Caused New York's Deadliest Factory Tragedy? Book Review of: Triangle, by David Von Drehle Louis Kern
2006 Fall The Middle-Class Professional At Risk; Book Review of: Bait and Switch, by B. Ehrenreich Russell Harrison
2006 Spring Benefits Battles and Budget Cuts in a Weak Job Market Gregory DeFreitas
2006 Spring The Wal-Mart Challenge to Union Organizing: Interview with UFCW Organizer Carlos Ramos Niev Duffy
2006 Spring Union Summer Ends and Labor's New Season Begins Rosemary Fantozzi
2006 Spring Blue-Collar Brains: Minds in Motion on the Manual Job Front; Book Review of: The Mind At Work, by Mike Rose Mathew Bodie
2006 Spring Class, Crime and Politics in New York's Construction; Book Review of: Empire Rising, by Thomas Kelly Russell Harrison
2006 Spring Book Review: Misbehavior and Dysfunctional Attitudes in Organizations, ed. by A. Sagie, S. Stashevsky, M. Koslowsky Mauritz D. Blonder
2006 Spring Film Review: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit & Power Pratima Bansal,et.al.
2006 Spring Snapshots of Local Labor Activities in 2005 RLR Editors
2005 Fall Unemployment Falls, Inequality Rises: New York's Uneven Recovery Gregory DeFreitas
2005 Fall Union Organizing among Low-Wage Suburban Immigrants A New Series of Interviews with Union Organizers Niev Duffy
2005 Fall How Important is the Minimum Wage? Wage Contours and Job Impacts Oren Levin-Waldman
2005 Fall Job and Business Growth Among New Migrants: Rising Self-Employment in New York City Jonathan A. Schwabish, Jane E. Lynch
2005 Fall Book Review: Living Labour: Life on the Line at Peugeot France, by J-P. Durand and N. Hatzfeld Janet Lenaghan
2005 Spring The Roller Coaster Transformation of a Creative Economy Samuel Ehrenhalt
2005 Spring New York's Youth Employment Problems and Policies: A Conversation with the NYC Commissioner of Youth Gregory DeFreitas
2005 Spring Immigration Grows to Half of New York's Labor Force Tarry Hum
2005 Spring Retirement Benefits in an Unstable Employment Era: Harry Van Arsdale and the First American Pensions Mark Glenn Eskenazi
2005 Spring Book Review: Working Together, by Cynthia Estlund Grant Hayden
2005 Spring Snapshots of Local Labor Activities in 2004 RLR Editors
2004 Fall Organizing and Identity in the New York City Workfare Program Benjamin Dulchin, Sharryn Kasmir
2004 Fall Brooklyn's Changing Role in the New York Labor Market Rebecca Busansky
2004 Fall Professors on Picket Lines: Faculty Unions Confront New Job Pressures Gregory DeFreitas
2004 Fall Book Review: Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America, ed. by John de Graaf Jeff Brice, Jr
2004 Fall Book Review: The Cheating Culture, by David Callahan Debra Comer
2004 Spring Job Deficits Deepen as Budget Deficits Explode: A Brief Guide to the Current Labor Market Recession Gregory DeFreitas
2004 Spring The Story Behind New York City's Greengrocer Code of Conduct: A Conversation with Patricia Smith Mathew Bodie
2004 Spring NewYorkTitlan: A Socioeconomic Profile of Mexican New Yorkers Francisco Rivera-Batiz
2004 Spring Professors on Strike and Immigrants on the March Snapshots of Local Labor Activities in 2003 RLR Editors
2003 Fall Profits and Productivity Up, Jobs and Wages Down: Mixed Prospects in a Jobloss Recovery Gregory DeFreitas
2003 Fall Fighting for Basic Human Rights in the Workplace: Lewis Maltby and the National Workrights Institute James M. Maloney
2003 Fall The Supreme Court's 2003 Employment Rulings: Surprising Gains for Workers and Women Joanna L. Grossman
2003 Fall Nontraditional Organizing of University and Museum Employees: Interview with the UAW's Maida Rosenstein Geraldine Casey
2003 Fall Does Saving Bernice Mean She Gets Nickel and Dimed? The Two Sides of the Welfare to Work Debate Robert Cherry
2003 Spring Jobless Recovery, Fiscal Crisis and Anti-Labor Policies Gregory DeFreitas
2003 Spring A Vision of Social Unionism: A Conversation with Artemio Guerra Sharryn Kasmir
2003 Spring Labor Relations in the New Century: An Interview with New York NLRB Director Celeste Mattina Mathew Bodie
2003 Spring Book Review: Working in America: Blueprint for a New Labor Market, by Paul Osterman, et.al. Louis J. Kern
2003 Spring Book Review: Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. Vernon Mogensen
2003 Spring Snapshots of Local Labor Activities in 2002 RLR Editors
2002 Fall Global Tension, Local Recession and Recovery Prospects: New York's Economy One Year Later Gregory DeFreitas
2002 Fall Confronting Contingent Work Abuse in High Tech and Low-Tech Jobs C. Ruckelshaus, et.al.
2002 Fall Why New York Workers Lost Ground in the 1990s Moshe Adler
2002 Fall A Partial Legal Victory Against Continuing Discrimination: Amtrak v. Morgan Joanna L. Grossman
2002 Fall Book Review: Age Discrimination by Employers, by Kerry Segrave Grant Hayden
2002 Spring Recession and Rebuilding in the New York Economy Gregory DeFreitas
2002 Spring New Organizing and Social Unionism in Manufacturing: An Interview with U.N.I.T.E.'s President, Bruce Raynor Gregory DeFreitas
2002 Spring The Coming Health Care Crisis for New York Parents Niev Duffy
2002 Spring Women's Labor Rights Rulings in 2001: A Mixed Bag Joanna L. Grossman
2002 Spring Book Review: Immigrant Women Take on the Global Factory, by Miriam Ching Youn Louwie Anne O'Byrne
2002 Spring New York's Workers Respond to Crisis: Snapshots of Local Labor Activities in 2001 RLR Editors
2001 Fall Economic Ills, Uneven Impacts & New Wage Battles Gregory DeFreitas
2001 Fall The Growing Threat of Rogue Unions to the AFL-CIO Niev Duffy
2001 Fall Inside the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Interview with Spencer Lewis, New York's EEOC Director Marc Lee
2001 Fall Can Unions Win at Region-wide Low-wage Organizing? A Talk with Hector Figueroa of "Justice for Janitors" Gregory DeFreitas
2001 Fall Why Income Inequality is Worsening in New York City Oren Levin-Waldman
2001 Fall Book Review: From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration, by Nancy Foner Sharryn Kasmir
2001 Spring Will New York's Job Growth Crash in a National Slump? Gregory DeFreitas
2001 Spring Latino Women Organizing Immigrant Workers An Interview with UNITY Housekeepers Cooperative Drucilla Cornell
2001 Spring Building a Ladder to Jobs and Higher Wages Working Group NYC Low-Wage
2001 Spring Book Review: Working Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II, by Joshua Freeman Vernon Mogenson
2001 Spring Snapshots of Local Labor Activities in 2000 RLR Editors
2000 Fall America's Working Class Majority Exclusive Excerpt of a New Book Michael Zweig
2000 Fall Labor Market Conditions and Election 2000 Gregory DeFreitas
2000 Fall Why Manufacturing Still Matters to New York City: An Interview with Adam Friedman Alice Meaker
2000 Fall Is "Comparable Worth" Worth It? The Potential Effects of Pay Equity Policy Heather Boushey
2000 Fall Book Review: Gotham Unbound: How New York City was Liberated from Organized Crime, by James Jacobs, et. al. Louis J. Kern
2000 Spring The Boom Breaks Records - but So Does Inequality Gregory DeFreitas
2000 Spring Privatization: You Don't Always Get What You Pay For Exclusive Excerpt of a New Book Elliott Sclar
2000 Spring Race, Labor and the Law: An Interview with Patricia J. Williams Drucilla Cornell
2000 Spring Police Fraternity and the Politics of Race and Class in NYC, 1941-60 Andrew Darien
2000 Spring Book Review: Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition, by Gabriel Haslip-Viera and Sherrie Bavers James Wiley
2000 Spring Snapshots of Local Labor Activities in 1999 RLR Editors
1999 Fall Job Growth and Wage Trends at Mid-Year 1999 Gregory DeFreitas, Lonnie Stevans
1999 Fall Recent Trends in the Gender Pay Gap in New York City & Long Island Niev Duffy
1999 Fall Human Rights, Foreign Workers and American Unions: An Interview with Charles Kernaghan Gregory DeFreitas
1999 Fall Book Review: From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor And America's Future, by Stanley Aronowitz Vernon Mogensen
1999 Spring Regional Job Growth and Wage Trends in 1998 Gregory DeFreitas, Lonnie Stevans
1999 Spring Trends in Wages, Employment and Economic Attitudes: New Findings from the Hofstra/Newsday Poll Lonnie Stevans
1999 Spring A New Union Movement for the New Economy: Interview with Jose Alvarez, AFL-CIO Regional Director Gregory DeFreitas
1999 Spring Glued to the Tube: Labor's Unlikely Victory for Computer Safety Suffolk County Vernon Mogensen
1999 Spring Book Review: American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins, by Sarah Mahler Sharryn Kasmir, Lisa Beneventano
1998 Fall Preview: Regional Labor Review Gregory DeFreitas
1998 Fall Regional Job Growth and Wage Trends through Mid-Year 1998 Gregory DeFreitas, Lonnie Stevans
1998 Fall The High Rate of Multiple Jobholding: Overworked and Underpaid? Lonnie Stevans
1998 Fall Organizing the Underground Immigrant Labor Force: Interview with Jennifer Gordon, The Workplace Project Sharryn Kasmir
1998 Fall Long Island's Ailing Health Care Benefits Niev Duffy
1998 Fall Long Island Labor: Constraints, Opportunities, And New Strategies Marc Silver
1998 Fall Book Review: Still the Promised City? African Americans and New Immigrants In Post-Industrial New York. by Roger Waldinger Gregory DeFreitas
 
 
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