Gordon Lafer - Dissent Magazine

The Last Bicycle Tire Plant

Gordon Lafer ▪ Fall 1984

Mexican Factory Workers’ Dream Dies on Altar of Free Trade

Fighting on Two Fronts

Gordon Lafer ▪ Fall 2002

Union Perspective on the War on Terrorism

Graduate Student Unions Fight the Corporate University

Gordon Lafer ▪ Fall 2001

This spring, graduate students at New York University made history when they won recognition for the first graduate student union at a private university. To accomplish this feat, students had to overcome the political and legal opposition of virtually every …

The Other Side of Paradise: Hawai’i’s Tourism Plantation

Gordon Lafer ▪ Summer 2001

Last fall, readers of Travel & Leisure magazine named the island of Maui the “World’s Best Island.” “Surprise, surprise,” sighed Condé Nast’s editors—this was the fourth year in a row Maui won the title. For the tourists who flock to …

Yale on Trial: Scholarly Life in the Age of Downsizing

Gordon Lafer ▪ Summer 1997

This spring, the senior administrators and faculty of Yale University are being called to the witness stand to answer federal charges that they illegally threatened graduate students engaged in a strike for union recognition. The trial, in a courtroom of …