No. 9 ~ An Injury to AllBUY ISSUE
The New Economy is in full swing, and we decide to do an issue on labor. It features Jim Frederick’s classic essay on the intern economy (the spine of the issue bore the slogan, “Interns Built the Pyramids”). Thomas Frank tells us how class was disappearing. Josh Mason examines the ephemera of bull-market culture, including a punk-rock investment magazine. Tom Vanderbilt rips into office culture, from Dilbert to Successories. Chris Lehmann writes on the intersection of class and labor in the American university. Dan Bischoff recalls the story of union-buster Henry Clay Frick; Frances Reed remembers the Lawrence, Massachusetts textile strike of 1912; Christian Parenti remembers prison labor and tells why it’s coming back. With fiction from Lydia Millet, a nod to authors-in-hiding by Robert Nedelkoff, and a cover by Mark Dancey. Spring 1997.
Table of Contents
Salvos
- My Dad Went to San Quentin and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt Christian Parenti
- Internment Camp Jim Frederick
- Cram Your Spam Peter Rachleff
- Confessions of a Labor Editor Jim McNeill
- Remainder Table: The Invisible Novelist Robert Nedelkoff
- Why Johnny Can’t Organize Bob Fitch
- Disorganized Labor Jacqueline Stewart
- Ursus Wallstreetus Doug Henwood
- The More Things Change . . . Peter Rachleff
- Confronting the Capitalist International David Moberg
- Unions Can’t Buy Elections, But Let’s Pretend They Can Rob Boatright
- Bread and Roses and Now, Circuses, Too! Frances Reed (pseud.)
- What the Frick Dan Bischoff
- Popular Front Redux? Chris Lehmann
- The Gaudy and Damned Tom Vanderbilt
- When Class Disappears Thomas Frank
- Three Scenes from a Bull Market Josh Mason
Stories
Odds and Ends
- Direct Male Risa Mickenberg
- Extreme Spreadsheet, Dude! Excerpt
- sucky.investment.com Excerpt
- Crazy Times Call for Repressive Organizations Excerpt
- Strike City, Miss. Hunter Kennedy