Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/10957960231172729
M. Witt
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/10957960231170227
M. Gray, Olivia Heffernan
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/10957960231170201
Sylvia A. Allegretto
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/10957960231169708
S. Sweeney
Several decades ago, unions in the Global South were on the cutting edge of societal struggles for democracy, new forms of organizing, and efforts to build a more equal world. In Brazil, Korea, South Africa, Philippines, and elsewhere, unions contributed to a political culture that was classbased and militant. As unions in the North were staggering under the blows inflicted by rightwing governments determined to reign in the power of unions, South unions in a number of key countries appeared to be going from strength to strength. In October 2022, a good number of those same unions that had led historic struggles in the 1980s and 1990s attended a three-day meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, to launch a new South-focused platform where unions work together on issues of energy transition, climate change, and economic development. Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED), the global network which I coordinate, convened the seventy-person meeting with union representatives from twenty-seven countries. Leaders from the Philippines, South Korea, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, and Mexico joined their counterparts from sixteen African countries. Unions from France and the United Kingdom also participated.1 Trade union discussions on climate change are always difficult, and normally produce more consternation than inspiration. There are few heroes, and seldom any uplifting stories. And while the radical traditions of the unions present were on display in the banners that decorated the room, this new generation of leadership finds itself contemplating a challenge so formidable it threatens to redefine what it means to be a trade union. Participants referred to the devastating floods in Pakistan that, just weeks prior to the Nairobi meeting, had displaced 7.9 million people and killed 1,700. According to UNICEF, 27,000 schools have been washed away and child mortality levels have risen in the months since the floods took place.2 Earlier in 2022, 400 hillside dwellers died during record-breaking rainfall in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province.3 These events further corroborate what scientists have been saying: the impact of climate change will everywhere be severe, but the lack of public services and resilient infrastructure will mean that poor countries will be hit particularly hard.4 Meanwhile, the countries that are most vulnerable to climate change are mired in energy poverty. In 2020, Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for more than three-quarters of the world’s people (568 million) who remained without access to electricity.5 1169708 NLFXXX10.1177/10957960231169708New Labor ForumSweeney research-article2023
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/10957960231169718
K. Rader
points out the limits of a narrow focus on the police itself. Calling the demand to defund the police a “weak call for redistribution,” he believes the focus instead should be on the much larger sum of “tax breaks, land grants, infrastructure improvements, public contracts and other giveaways that are doled out to corporations and developers.” Concretely, Johnson stresses that the central task should be to build alliances that are broad enough to fight the investor class and its agenda of privatizing public goods so wealth can be transferred to the top. He proposes the establishment of municipal-level public works programs, inspired by New Deal–era initiatives such as the Works Progress Administration, as a way to begin rolling back the carceral state by addressing the root causes of structural unemployment. Various potential jobs that would contribute to the public good are outlined. Public transit could be improved through the hiring of more staff as platform guides and to perform needed tasks like deicing platforms and installing heat lamps. Other important jobs like public school repair, wetland restoration, adult literacy education, and more are discussed. The strength of this section is that the proposals are ambitious while still being modest enough that one could imagine beginning to build a real-life coalition to fight for them. The critiques put forth in After Black Lives Matter are biting but necessary as we consider how to move forward. The book contains the kind of historical context and strategic thinking that has for too long been missing in conversations about police brutality and racial inequality. Readers will find it to be a useful tool in the fight against the neoliberal regime of policing.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/10957960231170224
Julieta Campana, Federico Blasco
has persisted and grown to become a structural feature of the Argentine labor market, estimated today at a fifth of the labor market (21.4 percent) which is, as is discussed later, still an underestimation
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/10957960231169724
Mark Dudzic
campaign promises with performance in office. However, Sanders’ most recognizable proposal, Medicare for All, would mean a massive expansion of the federal regulatory state, rather than a contraction. And his proposal for funding that program, in addition to other planks of his platform, called for a return to the kinds of progressive taxation principles that were destroyed over decades of neoliberal policy-making.
竞选承诺与在职表现。然而，桑德斯最知名的提议——全民医疗保险(Medicare for All)——将意味着联邦监管政府的大规模扩张，而不是收缩。他为该计划提供资金的提议，除了他的政纲中的其他内容外，还呼吁回归那种在几十年的新自由主义政策制定过程中遭到破坏的累进税制原则。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/10957960231170214
K. Krupat, Ligia M. Guallpa
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