Ive been working with the program for two years, though this program has been around for 16 years now. Its an Amazing Program working with 200 interns at 60 organizations in new york and d. C. Were really excited to have a speaker with us today. Her name is lori wallach and she is the director of Public Citizens global trade watch. Public citizen was founded in 1971 and is a nonprofit research, lobbying and litigation organization based in washington, d. C. Global trade watch is the newest of Public Citizens five divisions. It was launched by mrs. Wallach in 1995 and global trade watch is the leader in the Global Citizen movement for fair trade and investment policy. Over the course of the past decade, wallach has helped create a new Public Awareness around globalization. The emerging issue of our time. Working closely with n. G. O. s, scholars and activists in developing countries and with u. S. Congressional environment, environmental, labor and other allies, wallach has played an Im
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The big question, what we have to explain, how do we go from this new deal and world war ii. , in which the cio is growing exponentially and it is militant and all sorts of voice, and in which workers are calling on the government to 1 and other forms of inequities, how do we get from that to the current moment, with the remnants of a much more bureaucratic and business friendly timid and conventional union . As the last document in his chapter talked about how did the , Labor Movement mature from this conflict class conflict model to one of labormanagement peace . If we view that as maturation and not something else. Lets talk about what changes in the period. If you recall, coming out of world war ii, everything was still up in the air. The United States had still had won the war, but it was up in the air as to what would happen next. That federal government created during the war, those wartime agencies that came into being. What would be their fate . The system of corporatism, the
The big question, what we have to explain, how do we go from this new deal and world war ii. , in which the cio is growing exponentially and it is militant and all sorts of voice, and in which workers are calling on the government to 1 and other forms of inequities, how do we get from that to the current moment, with the remnants of a much more bureaucratic and business friendly timid and conventional union . As the last document in his chapter talked about how did the , Labor Movement mature from this conflict class conflict model to one of labormanagement peace . If we view that as maturation and not something else. Lets talk about what changes in the period. If you recall, coming out of world war ii, everything was still up in the air. The United States had still had won the war, but it was up in the air as to what would happen next. That federal government created during the war, those wartime agencies that came into being. What would be their fate . The system of corporatism, the