Chris Rhomberg is associate professor of sociology at
Fordham University and the author of The Broken Table:
The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor.
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A Turning Point for Chinese Workers?
Amid a wave of strikes, hopes for lasting workplace reforms
Chris Rhomberg
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We Forgot To End Poverty
Poverty remains at record highs. Is that because welfare reform failed, or because it succeeded all too well?
Chris Rhomberg