November 6-13 Mobile Capital, Migrating Workers in Global Capitalism

Read Mollie’s Job

By November 6 –Reading 1-69

By November 13- Read 70-165

By November 18 – Finish

Recommended Websites

· MY OULINE ON THE U.S. in the GLOBAL ECONOMY (Word) or HTML

· Taxpayers have financed the erosion of jobs through OPIC

· How Bretton Woods Reordered the World

· Deregulation and the Attack on labor –excerpt from Right Turn

· Concession Bargaining and the Decline of Unions in the 1980s Explodes myth that concessionary bargaining by unions saved jobs; shows how it started under Jimmy Carter, not Ronald Reagan, and is related to corporate agenda in both parties; shows how it was politically, not economically conditioned

· Mexican coyotes – the life of illegal immigrants

· Latinos as a scapegoat for Unemployment (1982)

· Steelworkers Face A Bleak Future After Layoffs (1984) –Chicago – Wisconsin Steel hardships

· Prison Industrial Complex

· Multiculturalism in the workplace, 1998

· “Labor Has To Be International:” David Abdulah Describes Workers Strategies for Organizing Transnational Corporations

· WTO History Project “Our unique collection of interviews with protest organizers and participants sheds light on the behind-the-scenes cooperative (and sometimes contentious) relationships among social movement organizations involved in the protests. While many additional materials may be physically examined at MSCUA, we have selected for electronic access from the collection some materials which are most illustrative of the diversity of the protests and which most represent the intense mobilization that made the events so dramatic. Our collection, donated by a great number of generous individuals, seeks to be representative of the diversity of interests that participated in the protests while paying special attention to the role played by organized Labor in these historic events. “

· Sweatshop Watch

· AFL-CIO Global Economy page -- lots of links, including women in the global economy statistics, children in the global economy, etc.

· National Labor Committee for worker and human rights—

· Nike Wages site

· Fifty Years is Enough—policies of the WTO

· Chicago Tribune records “massive scale” of child labor

· Bush’s assault on Labor Rights

· Economic Policy Institute --analysis of U.S. living standards, wage and hour patterns, benefits, trade and globalization statistics, etc --see for example, their report, “Inequality at the Starting Gate” on Kindergartners and the effect of disadvantages

o Income Inequality chart

· Executive Paywatch --follow the trends of executive pay

· Boom for Whom? Inequality dogged the “new economy”

· Wealth Distribution

· Household Debt

· Race and Money—statistics of income and jobs

· Whose Bubble Was it? –analyzing recent trends

· Digital Atlas of Chicago and Cook County, Illinois

· Why Unions Matter by Elaine Bernard

· Report on the American Workforce—Bureau of Labor Statistics

· Program on Law, Corporations and Democracy

· UNFAIR ADVANTAGE Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards by Human Rights Watch, 2000

· Barbara Ehrenreich, Your Urine Please -workers rights analyzed by their right or obligation to pee