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Winter 2012
Table of Contents
Editor's Page
What Next for the Occupy Movement? Padlock Michael Walzer
Politics Abroad
Anxious Times in China: Lurching Toward a New Social Contract Padlock Megan Shank and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Return of the New Democrats: Canada’s Socialists Re-invent Themselves Padlock Jordan Michael Smith
Dancing Over Catastrophes: The Far Right and Roma in Hungary Padlock Sohrab Ahmari
Hugo Chávez as Postmodern Perón Padlock Bhaskar Sunkara
American Workers in an Age of Austerity
Introduction Padlock Michael Kazin
Down and Out in the New Middletowns Max Fraser
Don’t Blame the Workers Padlock Dorothy Sue Cobble
The “I” in Union Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Frontline Caregivers: Still Struggling Padlock Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein
Tragedy in the Fields: The Self-destruction of the United Farm Workers Padlock Nelson Lichtenstein
Out of Control: Reagan, Labor, and the Fate of the Nation Padlock Jefferson Cowie
Articles
The Tea Party and Angry White Women Padlock Ruth Rosen
Would You Like An Ankle Bracelet With That? Winners and Losers in Electronic Monitoring Padlock James Kilgore
Educational Movements, Not Market Moments Padlock Janelle Scott
Views from the Black of the Math Classroom Padlock Joi A. Spencer
Reconsiderations
50 Years Later: Poverty and The Other America Maurice Isserman
Notebook
All for the Union...and Emancipation, too: What the Civil War Was About Padlock Chandra Manning
Tomasz Różycki and the Long Life of the Past Padlock Irena Grudzinska Gross
Books
More than Greed Steve Fraser
Age of Greed by Jeff Madrick
Politics Lost Padlock John Schmitt
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class by Guy Standing
But Now We See Padlock Eugene McCarraher
Prophetic Encounters: Religion and the American Radical Tradition by Dan McKanan
Dilemmas of Foreign Aid Padlock Dustin Roasa
Cambodia’s Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land by Joel Brinkley
Letters
How Can Architecture Be Democratic? Padlock Herbert J. Gans and Joan Ockman
The Last Page
From the Many, 99 Percent Padlock Nick Serpe