In a rundown, dirt-stained building in El Alto, Bolivia, five young men sit behind a rickety linoleum-topped table on an auditorium stage. A rainbow banner—known locally as the Wiphala, a flag representing half a millennium of indigenous resistance—hangs on the …
The Rule of Lawyers: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America’s Rule of Law by Walter K. Olson St. Martin’s Press, 2002, 352 pp., $25.95 Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government by Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod …
If Nelson Lichtenstein is only arguing that the contemporary labor movement should be bolstered by ideas, then we don’t disagree. As I noted in my review, inspiration is important. But to sustain the union spirit, workers need to see concrete …
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor by Nelson Lichtenstein Princeton University Press, 2002, 336 pp., $29.95 Longtime labor supporters may remember the Joe Hill ballads or Ralph Chaplin’s anthem “Solidarity Forever,” but years ago, the unions stopped …
