This magazine is not in your local Borders yet, but expect it to show up the early spring. I wrote the article but was surprised to get my advanced copy and find our campaign on the cover.
Though $11 is a lot to pay for a magazine, Social Policy is one of the best periodicals available that focuses on progressive policy and grassroots organizing. Social Policy is completely funded by readers, which explains it’s relatively high price. I guess that you can call it “old media” since it’s business model doesn’t rely on advertising but sells its content to a targeted audience. Hmmm. Sounds like new media?
In my article, I pose the PSOU model in contrast to traditional labor unionism; which is driven from the top down with predetermined union outcomes, an in contrast to worker center organizing models; which are more broad based and democratic but more often than not take collective bargaining off of the menu of the workers that they organize.
My article, “From Worker Center To Union” makes the case that even worker centers should see collective bargaining as the highest goal, affording the highest benefit and most protection for marginalized workers, even if it is the riskiest and hardest to achieve.
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