Tomato workers not loving McDonald's.
After declaring victory last year on Taco Bell for the treatment of Florida tomato pickers who supply the food chain, the Alliance for Fair Food, in association with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, are now going after McDonald's, the biggest fast food chain in...

The coolidge presidency: historians have rated Calvin Coolidge poorly among our nation's chief executives for being a "do-nothing president," but he should be rated highly for the very same reason.
Most Americans reserve their greatest praise for past presidents who were noted for their activity while in office. Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt immediately come to mind--the former for his aggressive extra-executive actions in putting down a "rebellion," and the latter for equally aggressive measures in reshaping American...

Tipping towards fair wages.
ENI -- US church leaders are lauding a wage agreement between the McDonald's fast-food chain and a group representing migrant farm workers in the state of Florida. The agreement between McDonald's USA and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers requires the restaurant chain to pay one cent more...

The view from south of the border: the deleterious effects of NAFTA in the United States are all too well known to Americans, but south of the border the agreement has likewise gutted the Mexican economy.
In December 1994, less than a year after the NAFTA agreement came into force among the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo took the drastic step of devaluating the Mexican peso. The ensuing crisis rocked global markets and threw the Mexican economy into recession. ...

Pure, Strong and Sexless: The Peasant Woman's Body and Gleb Uspensky.
Pure, Strong and Sexless: The Peasant Woman's Body and Gleb Uspensky. By HENRIETTA MONDRY. (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, 43) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2006. 289 pp. 60 [euro]; $75. ISBN 978-90-420-1828-0. Gleb Uspenskii (1843-1902) was a chronicler first of the morals of the provincial...

The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational.
The Corporation that Changed the World How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational by Nick Robins (Orient Longman ISBN 81 250 3022 0; Pluto Press ISBN 9780745325231) Globalization began in 1600 with a tiny trading company dealing in Asian spices. This...

Peasants fight China's abominable one-child policy.
According to reports carried by the BBC, Chinese peasants, possibly in the thousands, have rioted in response to a crackdown by officials on families that, in Beijing's eyes, have too many children. In a now long-standing policy, China's communist rulers allow urban families to have only one child while...

Martin Ramirez.
MARTIN RAMIREZ by Gean Moreno Milwaukee Art Museum, WI October 6, 2007 * January 13, 2008 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The individual drawing style may not be the best measuring stick when it comes to gauging the oeuvre of Martin Ramirez, since it may gain some of...

The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820-1850.
The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820-1850. By Cecilia Mendez (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. xvi plus 343 pp. $23.95). The issue of state building and the role of the peasantry has been the most important field for nineteenth-century Latin...

Social movements and collective identity: a decentered, dialogic view (1).
Scholars of social movements have endeavored, over the past several decades, to incorporate culture into conceptualizations of social movements (e.g., Calhoun 1994; Cohen 1985; Gamson 1991; Johnston and Klandermans 1995; Melucci 1989; Stryker et al. 2000; Swidler 1986). Early contributions included "collective identity," "frames," and other products of collective...