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Robert J. S. Ross

Research Professor of Sociology at Clark University

Robert J. S. Ross

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Port Huron and Democracy

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Robert Ross

Chapter 10 in A New Insurgency, edited by Howard Brick, University of Michigan Press 126 Democracy, Labor, and Globalization: Reflections on Port Huron by Robert J. S. Ross Participatory democracy, the central idea of the Port Huron Statement, is today … Continue reading →

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Not Chicago 1968, but Berlin 1932

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Robert Ross

If left leaning activists are serious about their characterization of Trump as a fascist, then they better get serious about the problem of unity.  American Prospect, March 28, 2016:http://prospect.org/article/not-chicago-1968-berlin-1932 … Continue reading →

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Is Labor a Commodity?

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Robert Ross

A note on Wisconsin judge’s decision overruling that state’s “right-to-Work” legislation. Published at Dissent Magazine April 26, 2016: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/labor-commodity-wisconsin … Continue reading →

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On American Retailers and the Bangladesh Disasters

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Robert Ross

  American clothing retailers should put up or shut up The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel May 23, 2013 By Robert J.S. Ross The death of over 1,100 workers in the Bangladesh garment factory collapse now poses a stark challenge to North … Continue reading →

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Workers’ Wages in China and Bangladesh

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Jasper Boyd

Author’s note:  this letter made the NYT website, but not the grown-up newspaper. link » July 23, 2010 Workers’ Wages in China and Bangladesh To the Editor: Re “As Labor Costs Rise in China, Textile Jobs Shift Elsewhere” (front page, … Continue reading →

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Bangladesh and the Triangle Fires: Exporting fires from rich to poor

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Jasper Boyd

12/15/10 Bangladesh and the Triangle Fires:  Exporting fires from rich to poor 100 years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, a sordid parallel exists across the globe Laws and enforcement needed in trade agreements  On March 25 we will observe the … Continue reading →

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