Kim Moody
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim Moody |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Moody |
| SIGNATURE | MOODY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Labour and the contradictory logic of logistics
Since the early 1980s, the way in which goods and materials are exchanged and moved has changed in what has been called the ‘logistics revolution'. In the USA, the value of goods moved as freight has doubled since the late 1990s, the number of warehouses has grown by two-and-a-half times, while the amount carried by intermodal transport has grown by five times over these years. This article will argue that the system of logistics that has taken s…
High Tech, Low Growth: Robots and the Future of Work
For decades futurists, academics and business experts have argued that automation, robots and other new technology would eliminate millions of jobs. Yet the workforce in the US has continued to grow, even if more slowly, to new heights. Work has changed, but the predicted ‘end of work’ failed to materialise even as technology has advanced, albeit unevenly. This article will argue that the answer to this apparent riddle is not to be found in analy…
Striking Out in America
Democratizing Labor from Within
Workers of the World
Kim Moody on Beverly Silver, Forces of Labour. Investigation of the historically shifting frontiers of working-class resistance, from 1870s Northern heartlands to the newly industrializing periphery of South Africa, Brazil and South Korea
International Unionism: Recovering History, Reshaping Theory, Recasting Practice
The potential of international unionism is to provide a political counterweight to the ever-growing power of international capital, which has over the past 25 years rolled back many of the gains made by organised labour during the post-war Tong boom'. The topic is surprisingly under-researched, despite its salience to labour history, industrial relations, political economy and international relations. This may be because it has tended to inhabit …
Is U.S. Labor Changing as Fast as the Workplace
AT FIRST GLANCE the coupling of these two anthologies in one review might seem a matter of apples and oranges. A Labor Mo ventent for the Century, edited by Gregory Mantsios, focuses on the possibilities for US unions offered by the new leaders of the AFL-CIO; while Unions and Workplace Reorganization, edited by Bruce Nissen, looks at the profound changes in work organization associated with lean production. Both anthologies present valuable disc…
Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy
Towards an International Social Movement Unionism
In the late 1990s, the structure of world capitalism has become clear. Capitalism is now global, but the world economy remains fragmented and highly uneven. The old North-South divide has widened in terms of the incomes of the majority. The South is locked into the role of low-wage
American Labor: A Movement Again
Things are changing in the American labor movement and, at last, they are changing for the better. The most visible symbol of this change is the new leadership at the AFL-CIO. The energy and high profile displayed by the "New Voice" team of John Sweeney, Rich Trumka, and Linda Chavez Thompson is a welcome change. Even more important is the commitment of the new leaders to reverse labor's long decline by shifting enormous resources to organize the…
A New American Politics: Who Will Answer the Invitation
Joel Rogers (nlr 210) has done the Left in the us a great service in pointing out that the current political conjuncture in the us ‘is the unstated invitation to progressive action, our opportunity to do some good.’ As Rogers argues, liberalism is dying, the
Nafta and the Corporate Redesign of North America
Free trade is not a popular idea in labor circles these days. Trade liberalization is closely associated with industrial restructuring, job dislocation, and declining real wages, which both underlie and reflect shrinking union size and power. Thus, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has U.S. union members and leaders alike worried about their future. Thomas Donahue, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, probably spoke for many when he …
The Hours of Competition
Review of The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure by Juliet Schor.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
A Reply to Staughton Lynd
When Staughton Lynd told me that he was writing a review of both my book, An Injury to All, and David Montgomery’s, The Fall of the House of Labor, I quipped that he had put me in some fast company. After all, David Montgomery is not only an
Confessions (and Contentions) of an Orthodox Militant; Dana Frank Replies
It's hard to fault a reviewer who calls your book "the best analysis of the internal dynamics of American trade unionism in the last forty years" and has high praise for Labor Notes, the project that inspired me to write the book. Furthermore, in her review of An Injury To All (MR, October 1989), Dana Frank did what many reviewers with strong viewpoints often don't: present enough of a summary of the content to let the reader know what the book i…
High Tech, Low Growth: Robots and the Future of Work
For decades futurists, academics and business experts have argued that automation, robots and other new technology would eliminate millions of jobs. Yet the workforce in the US has continued to grow, even if more slowly, to new heights. Work has changed, but the predicted ‘end of work’ failed to materialise even as technology has advanced, albeit unevenly. This article will argue that the answer to this apparent riddle is not to be found in analy…
Towards an International Social Movement Unionism
In the late 1990s, the structure of world capitalism has become clear. Capitalism is now global, but the world economy remains fragmented and highly uneven. The old North-South divide has widened in terms of the incomes of the majority. The South is locked into the role of low-wage
Nafta and the Corporate Redesign of North America
Free trade is not a popular idea in labor circles these days. Trade liberalization is closely associated with industrial restructuring, job dislocation, and declining real wages, which both underlie and reflect shrinking union size and power. Thus, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has U.S. union members and leaders alike worried about their future. Thomas Donahue, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, probably spoke for many when he …
American Labor: A Movement Again
Things are changing in the American labor movement and, at last, they are changing for the better. The most visible symbol of this change is the new leadership at the AFL-CIO. The energy and high profile displayed by the "New Voice" team of John Sweeney, Rich Trumka, and Linda Chavez Thompson is a welcome change. Even more important is the commitment of the new leaders to reverse labor's long decline by shifting enormous resources to organize the…
Is U.S. Labor Changing as Fast as the Workplace
AT FIRST GLANCE the coupling of these two anthologies in one review might seem a matter of apples and oranges. A Labor Mo ventent for the Century, edited by Gregory Mantsios, focuses on the possibilities for US unions offered by the new leaders of the AFL-CIO; while Unions and Workplace Reorganization, edited by Bruce Nissen, looks at the profound changes in work organization associated with lean production. Both anthologies present valuable disc…
Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy
Confessions (and Contentions) of an Orthodox Militant; Dana Frank Replies
It's hard to fault a reviewer who calls your book "the best analysis of the internal dynamics of American trade unionism in the last forty years" and has high praise for Labor Notes, the project that inspired me to write the book. Furthermore, in her review of An Injury To All (MR, October 1989), Dana Frank did what many reviewers with strong viewpoints often don't: present enough of a summary of the content to let the reader know what the book i…
A Reply to Staughton Lynd
When Staughton Lynd told me that he was writing a review of both my book, An Injury to All, and David Montgomery’s, The Fall of the House of Labor, I quipped that he had put me in some fast company. After all, David Montgomery is not only an
Confessions (and Contentions) of an Orthodox Militant; Dana Frank Replies
It's hard to fault a reviewer who calls your book "the best analysis of the internal dynamics of American trade unionism in the last forty years" and has high praise for Labor Notes, the project that inspired me to write the book. Furthermore, in her review of An Injury To All (MR, October 1989), Dana Frank did what many reviewers with strong viewpoints often don't: present enough of a summary of the content to let the reader know what the book i…
The Hours of Competition
Review of The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure by Juliet Schor.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Nafta and the Corporate Redesign of North America
Free trade is not a popular idea in labor circles these days. Trade liberalization is closely associated with industrial restructuring, job dislocation, and declining real wages, which both underlie and reflect shrinking union size and power. Thus, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has U.S. union members and leaders alike worried about their future. Thomas Donahue, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, probably spoke for many when he …
A New American Politics: Who Will Answer the Invitation
Joel Rogers (nlr 210) has done the Left in the us a great service in pointing out that the current political conjuncture in the us ‘is the unstated invitation to progressive action, our opportunity to do some good.’ As Rogers argues, liberalism is dying, the
Towards an International Social Movement Unionism
In the late 1990s, the structure of world capitalism has become clear. Capitalism is now global, but the world economy remains fragmented and highly uneven. The old North-South divide has widened in terms of the incomes of the majority. The South is locked into the role of low-wage
American Labor: A Movement Again
Things are changing in the American labor movement and, at last, they are changing for the better. The most visible symbol of this change is the new leadership at the AFL-CIO. The energy and high profile displayed by the "New Voice" team of John Sweeney, Rich Trumka, and Linda Chavez Thompson is a welcome change. Even more important is the commitment of the new leaders to reverse labor's long decline by shifting enormous resources to organize the…
Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy
Is U.S. Labor Changing as Fast as the Workplace
AT FIRST GLANCE the coupling of these two anthologies in one review might seem a matter of apples and oranges. A Labor Mo ventent for the Century, edited by Gregory Mantsios, focuses on the possibilities for US unions offered by the new leaders of the AFL-CIO; while Unions and Workplace Reorganization, edited by Bruce Nissen, looks at the profound changes in work organization associated with lean production. Both anthologies present valuable disc…
Workers of the World
Kim Moody on Beverly Silver, Forces of Labour. Investigation of the historically shifting frontiers of working-class resistance, from 1870s Northern heartlands to the newly industrializing periphery of South Africa, Brazil and South Korea
International Unionism: Recovering History, Reshaping Theory, Recasting Practice
The potential of international unionism is to provide a political counterweight to the ever-growing power of international capital, which has over the past 25 years rolled back many of the gains made by organised labour during the post-war Tong boom'. The topic is surprisingly under-researched, despite its salience to labour history, industrial relations, political economy and international relations. This may be because it has tended to inhabit …
Democratizing Labor from Within
Striking Out in America
High Tech, Low Growth: Robots and the Future of Work
For decades futurists, academics and business experts have argued that automation, robots and other new technology would eliminate millions of jobs. Yet the workforce in the US has continued to grow, even if more slowly, to new heights. Work has changed, but the predicted ‘end of work’ failed to materialise even as technology has advanced, albeit unevenly. This article will argue that the answer to this apparent riddle is not to be found in analy…
Labour and the contradictory logic of logistics
Since the early 1980s, the way in which goods and materials are exchanged and moved has changed in what has been called the ‘logistics revolution'. In the USA, the value of goods moved as freight has doubled since the late 1990s, the number of warehouses has grown by two-and-a-half times, while the amount carried by intermodal transport has grown by five times over these years. This article will argue that the system of logistics that has taken s…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (9 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works)