Nov/Dec 2009: Work & the green economy

The economic crisis has taken a grim toll on working people and on the labour movement. In its wake, can labour activists and environmentalists join forces to build a green economy that works for everyone? This is just one of the many questions we set out to answer in our annual labour issue, which also brings you a report on the sorry state of freelance journalism, a first-hand account of fighting fire in Canada’s Big Wild, an assessment of the prospects for union organizing in tough times, a look at the intersection of neoliberalism and volunteerism in New Orleans, and more.

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features

global perspectives on the great recession:

Saints or scabs? The impact of volunteer labour in New Orleans
By Sara Falconer

Two-tier workforce: South Korea’s migrant underclass bears the brunt
By Steven Borowiec

Hong Kong’s women workers & the fight for a minimum wage
By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours

organizing in tough times
Should labour unions hunker down or go on the offensive?
By Sarah Ryan

will write for food
The dismal state of freelance journalism
By Andrea Crummer

cutting the global economy down to size
The nature of work & the green-collar workforce
By Robin Tennant-Wood

Supplement: Resources to fuel the shift to a green economy

work less, live more
Renegotiating our relationship with work
By Anna Kirkpatrick

days of smoke & roses
Fighting fire in the Big Wild
By Angela Street

are governments doing enough to address the global jobs crisis?
Global Jobs Pact a blueprint for change
By Stephanie Dearing

departments

letter from the editor
Turtles and teamsters, ten years on

review

Aziz Choudry et al’s Fight Back: Workplace justice for immigrants
Reviewed by David Koch

quotes from the underground
Thus spake Stephen Harper

parting shots
The coming austerity
By Simon Enoch

luz: girl of the knowing
(Luz returns next issue)

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