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The New Democrat Magazine Archives
1998

DLC | The New Democrat | March 1, 1998
Why America Needs a New Labor

Cover Story

New Unions for a New Economy
By Stephen A. Herzenberg, John A. Alic, and Howard Wial
How labor can help lay the foundation for widely shared prosperity.

Antiquities and Abusers
By Alan Wolfe
Middle-class Americans speak their mind on big labor and big business.

Free Agents by Choice
By Carl T. Camden
Policymakers have failed to respond to the explosion in contingent work.

Playing Cards Face Up
By Erik Gunn
In Wisconsin, unions and firms are building high-performance workplaces together.

Empowerment in the Public Sector
By David Osborne and Peter Plastrik
How government unions in Indianapolis rose to the challenge of privatization.

Essays and Comment

The Wealth of Cities
By John O. Norquist
Urban areas could solve most of their problems if we only released their shackles.

The New Britain
By Tony Blair
In Britain, as in America, a new politics is being born.

View from the Left Coast
By Harold Meyerson
In California, unions have assembled the elements of a new progressive agenda.

Survival of the Fit
By Debra S. Knopman
A bipartisan bill to extend the Endangered Species Act is imperfect but worth passing.

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