Fall 2024

Joseph A. McCartin’s essay makes a valuable contribution to debates on labor movement revival. He sees danger in labor advocates’ new focus on human rights, and calls instead for making a renewed (and perhaps re-phrased) notion of “industrial democracy” labor’s …

“Weak,” “toothless,” “worthless” and “a farce”—these were some of the epithets applied to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) labor side accord negotiated by the United States, Mexico, and Canada in 1993. Trade unionists and labor rights supporters were …