Collected Writings.
A WRITER'S "concerns are with all mankind," wrote Thomas Paine in 1777, "and though he cannot command their obedience, he can assign them their duty." "Poor Paine [is] not the most prudent man in the world," wrote an American a few years later. These books support both judgments. John...

Tom Paine.
Tom Paine, by John Keane (Little, Brown, 644 pp., $27.95) Collected Writings, by Thomas Paine (Library of America, 906 pp., $35) A WRITER'S "concerns are with all mankind," wrote Thomas Paine in 1777, "and though he cannot command their obedience, he can assign them their duty." "Poor Paine...

Garment firms assured of gov't support.
Local garments makers are assured of continued government support to be more competitive in the world market and help sustain its quota commitments. Trade and Industry Acting Secretary Thomas Aquino has stressed the importance of enhancing the capabilities of the garments industry with the support of the...

Organizing and on strike: portraits of the Chinese Ladies Garment Workers unions Local No. 341 in 1938.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Photos from Chinese Digest's coverage of the 1938 strike of the workers sewing for National Dollar Store factory: TWO GENERATIONS, BUT WITH ONE PURPOSE--PICKETING Among the 159 or so women garment factory workers who recently called a strike for higher wages...

Labor strike in Chinatown--official statements of parties involved: Chinese Digest, April 1938.
Note by the editor of Chinese Digest: The first organized, large-scale labor strike between Chinatown workers and Chinatown employers occurred here recently, a fact which is history making in the life of the Chinese in America. On the morning of Feb. 26, 1938, the newly organized Chinese Ladies Garment...

The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK's Assassination.
The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK's Assassination. By David R. Wrone. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 368. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1291-2.) Filmed by Abraham Zapruder, a Dallas dress manufacturer, as John F. Kennedy's motorcade passed the Texas School Book Depository building on November 22, 1963,...

Making connections.
What's Behind the Label? Fair wages and safe working conditions are essential to help provide solutions to long-term poverty. For this reason, PWS&D supports the work of The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN), a Canadian network working with groups in Mexico, Central America, and Asia to improve conditions...

Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor.
Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor. By Daniel E. Bender. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. x + 272. pp. For Daniel Bender, the identification of--and opposition to--sweatshops in the U.S. resulted from a complex interaction of concerns about immigration and disease,...

Asian women come out swinging.
San Francisco Forty protesters pace in front of the Jessica McClintock boutique in downtown San Francisco. A dozen are Asian immigrant women who have not been paid for sewing the gowns hanging in the store's window. They are easy to spot: The women wear baseball caps and...

Contesting femininity: Vuillard's family pictures.
Edouard Vuillard dwelled in a mundus muliebris, we have been told, a "saturated feminine world."(1) It has been assumed that the atmosphere of that world is distilled in Vuillard's domestic interiors filled with women - scenes painted with densely packed matte strokes that evoke the patterning of tapestry or the...