Demystifies U.S. foreign policy in the 80s and explores the policy options of rollback, "moderate" containement, and neoliberal containment. Uses the examples of Nicaragua to unravel pretexts for U.S. intervention throughout the Third World.

Reagan, Trilateralism and the Neoliberals: Containment and Intervention in the 1980s (South End Press Pamphlet Series)

History

Sklar, Holly

Americas

South End Press

An account of U.S. policy from the Sandinista revolution through the Iran-contra scandal and beyond. Sklar shows how the White House sabotaged peace negoatiations and sustained the deadly contra war despite public opposition, with secret U.S. special forces and an auxiliary arm of dictators, drug smugglers and death squad godfathers, and illuminates an alternative policy rooted in law and democracy.

Washington's War on Nicaragua

Washington's war on Nicaragua

Using the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in Boston's most impoverished neighborhood as a case stuudy, the authors show how effective organizing reinforces neighborhood leadership, encourages grassroots power and leads to successful public-private partnerships and comprehensive community development.--Prof. Norman Krumholz

Streets of Hope : The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood

Medoff, Peter

Chaos or Community?: Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics

Holly Sklar presents a disturbing vision of the modern, corporation-dominated America, where the rich get richer, the poor are mired in poverty, and the society no longer cares for its children.

Business & Money

Economics

Holly Sklar presents a disturbing vision of the modern, corporation-dominated America, where the rich get richer, the poor are mired in poverty, and the society no longer cares for its children.

"They work full time in the richest nation on earth, yet they can’t make ends meet. They can’t make ends meet because their wages are too low. They are health care aides who can’t afford health insurance. They work in the food industry, but depend on food banks to help feed their children. They are child care teachers who don’t make enough to save for their own children’s education. . . . They care for the elderly, but they have no pensions."—from Raise the Floor
A job should keep you out of poverty, not keep you in it. But millions of people make up the working poor in the U.S. Rooted in powerful new research and personal narratives, Raise the Floor makes the case for a livable minimum wage and shows how good wages are good business.
Raise the Floor illustrates how the current annual minimum wage income of $10,712 a year just doesn’t add up. For example, to make ends meet, two parents with two children would have work more than three full-time minimum wage jobs—66 hours a week—leaving little time for sleep, family outings, religious services, or participating in community activities with their kids.
In a January 2002 poll of likely voters, Americans overwhelmingly identified raising the minimum wage as key to stimulating the economy. By a resounding 77 percent, these voters favored increasing the minimum wage to $8 an hour—the amount a single, full-time worker needs to meet minimum needs.
Raise the Floor is written in a lively, readable style and includes boxed quotes from folks in all walks of life who recognize the need for practical solutions to ending poverty. Documented with 60 tables and charts.

Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work For All Of Us

Mykyta, Laryssa

Wefald, Susan

Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management

This is a classic work--a highly-readable, wide-ranging study of the Trilateral Commission and the worldwide strategies of Trilateralism Trilateralism is the creed of an international ruling class whose locus of power is the global corporation. The owners and managers of global corporations view the entire world as their factory, farm, supermarket, and playground.

Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and elite planning for world management

Politics & Social Sciences

Trilateral Commission

Politics & Government

Black Rose Books

Between the Lines

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Books by Sklar, Holly

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Reagan, Trilateralism and the Neoliberals: Containment and Intervention in the 1980s (South End Press Pamphlet Series)

Washington's War on Nicaragua

Washington's War on Nicaragua

Streets of Hope : The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood

Streets of Hope : The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood

Chaos or Community?: Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics

Chaos or Community?: Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics

Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work For All Of Us

Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and elite planning for world management

Washington's war on Nicaragua