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Barbara Garson is the author of a series of books describing American working lives at historical turning points, including All the Livelong Day (1975), The Electronic Sweatshop (1988) and Money Makes the World Go Around (2001). Her new book, just published, is Down the Up Escalator: How the 99% Live in the Great Recession (Doubleday).
Fascinating pamphlet by Solidarity on the informal workers struggle against the frenetic pace of work at a General Motors plant, and the later co-optation of the struggle by the auto workers union.
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Long, long ago, in the moss-encrusted year of 1967 — when Shakespeare was still on high school reading lists and most of the population was capable of recognizing simple literary allusions — an obscure left-wing writer named Barbara Garson enjoyed her fifteen minutes of fame by attacking President Lyndon Johnson and his long-suffering wife in a lightweight but heavy-handed parody of “Macbeth.” She called it “MacBird” and the cast of characters was headed by Lord and Lady MacBird, a thinly-disguised homicidal duo based on Lyndon and “Ladybird” Johnson, then at...
by Jayantha Gunasekera, PC November 22, 1963 is a day of sad remembrance for the Americans because it was on that fateful day that their beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK), was shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald who concealed himself in the Texas School Book Depository to carry out this dastardly act. President Kennedy, with his wife, Jackie, and Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie, were in a motorcade, traveling in an open hooded presidential limousine (a Ford Lincoln Continental Convertible) driven by Agent Bill Greer of the Secret Service when Oswald, a superb ...
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