Stories by David Bacon
David Bacon is the author of several books, the most recent of which is Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants.
The successful union strategy relied on uniting a diverse workforce of African Americans, Puerto Ricans and immigrant Mexicans.
Posted on Dec 22, 2008
Can direct action on the part of workers overturn American corporatism?
Posted on Dec 16, 2008
A new administration that has raised such high expectations should look for new ideas, not recycle the bad ones of the last few years.
Posted on Nov 26, 2008
National political campaigns say less and less about immigration enforcement.
Posted on Oct 28, 2008
Something is clearly wrong with the priorities of immigration enforcement.
Posted on Oct 28, 2008
A major raid in Mississippi had a political agenda -- to undermine a growing coalition threatening the state's conservative establishment.
Posted on Sep 2, 2008
Much of today's immigration from Mexico begins with heavily-subsidized U.S. corn.
Posted on Jul 24, 2008
Undocumented immigrants were recently arrested for securing jobs at meatpacking plants by using Social Security numbers that didn't belong to them. Their crime: paying for someone else's retirement.
Posted on Jan 3, 2007
On the Mexican border, old post-revolutionary legal rights are just so much ink on paper, and even the decisions of federal judges to enforce the law are simply ignored.
Posted on Jul 8, 2005
Young conservatives are trying to revive McCarthy-era witch-hunts on campuses.
Posted on Jun 15, 2005
An Iraqi union leader may be the biggest obstacle blocking U.S. efforts to privatize oil and other industries in Iraq.
Posted on Apr 28, 2005
Iraqi workers are fighting for their rights, which have been severely undermined by the policies of the coalition authority. Their biggest supporter: American labor unions.
Posted on Jul 29, 2004
There's another kind of battle being waged in Iraq -- the fight for worker's rights. Many Iraqi union organizers are finding that the U.S. authority isn't much kinder to them than was Saddam.
Posted on Dec 10, 2003
The link between war in Iraq and education at home is growing more apparent, especially in California. Protest against the war among young college-bound students is growing as resources for education at home shrink.
Posted on Apr 9, 2003
Standards and testing are this year's buzzwords when it comes to education. But a major player in this game is rarely mentioned -- the cabal of three huge companies that dominate the test publishing industry.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000
