Vol. 27 No. 6 December 2008-January 2009
CONTENTS
FEATURE STORIES
WORKING HISTORY
12 MAKING THE LINKS
If workers don't understand the history of where and how they gained their rights, it makes it easier to take those rights way.
By Ken Clavette
14 WASHDAY
An excerpt from Gold Dust on His Shirt, the true story of an immigrant mining family.
By Irene Howard
17 CREDIT CRUNCH
It would be folly to take the Herbert Hoover route of slashing spending. The Canadian Labour Congress' response to the economic crisis.
COVER STORY
20 THE POWER TO CHANGE THINGS
No one sector can remain an island of good wages and working conditions in a sea of declining standards. Labour rights are human rights. And that's why we need to get organizing.
By Elaine Bernard
26 GOOD JOBS FOR ALL
More than 1,000 labour and community activists packed into the Toronto Metro Convention Centre in November 2008 to discuss how to get good jobs for all, and what that means.
By Sean Cain
REGULAR DEPARTMENTS
5 LETTERS
Our Times in Class * Keeping History Alive * Labour History and Language * Diverse Labour History * Rideau Canal Workers
8 NOTES
LabourStart Photo Contest * Labour Rights are Human Rights * Boycott Petro-Canada
9 OUR TIMES TALLY
Tonnes of Canadian CO2 emissions that could be reduced each year by maintaining proper car tire pressure: 1,500,000
By Sean Cain
WEBWORK
11 UNION WEBSITE COMMENTS POLICY
One of the advantages the labour movement has as a latecomer to the Internet game is that a lot of the problems we're worried about have already been solved.
By Derek Blackadder
16 POETRY
By George Amabile
WORKING FOR A LIVING
30 TRUCK DRIVING
The temperature had warmed up and then dropped down again, so the road was a sheet of ice.
By Daniel Johnson
As told to Shelley Tomlinson
REVIEWS
34 SOLIDARITY DIVIDED
Solidarity Divided is an articulate, insightful and critical book about the U.S. labour movement.
Review by Robin Breon
37 LABOUR AND THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION
To have effective transnational solidarity, union movements need to work on improving conditions at home. A review of Labour and the Challenges of Globalization.
Review by Dale Clark
COMMENTARY
40 THE BERKELEY SOLUTION
Now would be a good time to solve both the environmental crisis and the jobs crisis by investing in green jobs. But there's another piece to it.
By Randy Robinson
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