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National Employment Law Project

Amy Bach, "All Locked Up" Slate

Amy Bach, Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court Henry Holt, 2009

According to a new report, ICE raids and other immigration enforcement efforts have undermined the basic labor rights of workers. Rebecca Smith is one of the report's coauthors. And Amy Bach asks whether Joe Sullivan, sentenced as a 13-year-old to life without parole, got a fair trial.

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Catherine Lutz

Cecile Pineda

 

What are the social and environmental costs of building and maintaining military bases and huge monuments? Catherine Lutz is editor of The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts. And Cecile Pineda's novel Frieze considers the forced labor that went into the ninth-century construction of the Javanese monument Borobudur.

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Jon Tracy's The Farm, presented by the Shotgun Players

From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks: The Life and Times of Harry Bridges

George Orwell's novel Animal Farm is, in large part, about how power corrupts. The novel has been adapted by Jon Tracy for the stage. Also, what kind of power did Harry Bridges wield, and for what purposes? Ian Ruskin stars in a film about one of the greatest labor leaders in US history.

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Mike Davis, In Praise of Barbarians: Essays Against Empire Haymarket, 2007

For months it felt like the people of California held their collective breath, until state lawmakers hammered out a budget package that the Governor signed. Mike Davis held neither his breath nor his tongue. He talked about the economic crisis, Democrat lawmakers, and Left organizing at Socialism 2009. And Vivek Chibber describes what kind of leverage working people have in relation to the state.

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Andrew Ross, Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times NYU Press, 2009

The era of stable, secure, steady work with one employer is over. According to Andrew Ross, precarity has become a central element in people's lives. What explains the rise of contingent employment, and how prevalent has it become in the creative economy and in education? Ross talks about recent trends and their impact, and offers his vision of an alternative to "flexploitation."

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Richard McIntyre, Are Worker Rights Human Rights? U. of Michigan Press, 2008

Human rights and their violation are an insistent focus of many activists and organizations. But are there important limitations to rights-based politics? Because an individualist interpretation of rights holds sway, Richard McIntyre asserts that the rights revolution has failed to advance the collective strength of US workers.