In the past 25 years the number of working women in America has nearly doubled. Today 55 percent of women aged 18-64 are part of the labor force. Still, despite the efforts of the women’s movement—and much general lip service—women …
“Is Quebec still part of Canada?” asks the traffic policeman in Boston. The New York Times quotes an administrator of multicampus Antioch College as opposing a “Canadian solution” to his troubled institution. There seems to be an idea abroad that …
E. P. Thompson is best known as the social historian whose magisterial The Making of the English Working Class has had an enduring impact on the writing of labor history on both sides of the Atlantic. His biography of William …
This March Britain’s Labour government fell in a vote of no confidence after months of industrial strife. Ford machinists, truckers, local-authority manual workers, social workers and civil servants had battered and broken the government’s wage guidelines. Five years ago Heath’s …
The death of Jayaprakash Narayan—known to his compatriots and throughout the world simply as JP —brings to an end a life that spanned every important event in 50 years of Indian history, ranging from the struggle for independence to the …
Surface storms that shake up Indian politics, such as the one that uprooted Morarji Desai’s government last year in mid-July or the more recent one over the year-end elections, are the only events in India’s politics that catch the world’s …
The name Gröfaz, says Professor Craig in his well-written history of modern Germany, “is ugly enough to belong to some mythical monster, some twisted goblin embodying evil.” It was the anagram of the title “Greatest Fieldmarshall of All Times,” which …
Because it takes several weeks to “make up” and print Dissent, we had to arrange the interview below for early August, perhaps two months before you will be able to read it. We hope of course that this interview will …
Roanoke Rapids, N.C. July 18, 1977 Dear Ann: No matter how long I stay here I’m sure to go on feeling like Rip Van Winkle. Twelve years after Mississippi I’m back in a South I still can’t believe. It’s not …
Supporters of detente use arguments that fall into two overlapping categories: economic and military. The economic justification of detente usually begins with a vision of fabulous profits purportedly awaiting Western business once detente progresses to the point of allowing expanded …
At this time in history, could human rights considerations truly be a factor in the foreign-policy choices of Western countries? And might they determine the policies and activities of TNCs—transnational corporations? The rhetoric of human rights indeed has framed much …
The current phase of the black struggle for freedom and equality is approaching its 30th year. No one would deny that a great deal of positive change has taken place during this period, producing many gains for black Americans. Still, …
The Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred a bare two weeks after The China Syndrome opened at first-run theaters—as always, life imitating bad art. Since the dramatic center of the movie was the possibility of a meltdown, it was taken …
In Spain, the democratic transformation continues to have a churning effect on many aspects of life. The vicissitudes of change are having their greatest impact in the political sector, as the various parties now strive to align ideologies with the …
Such as it is in the United States, the welfare state, a term for which exegesis will soon be supplied, came under intense fire even before the OPEC coup slowed economic growth, upset a precarious political detente over the size …
