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BOOKS
 |  |  |  |  | What happens when a child wakes up sick and both parents need to get to work? Or an elderly parent is hospitalized and the working children want to take time off? These are the types of crises working families encounter every day. Strategies for changing the workplace to make it easier for parents to balance work and family life are outlined in A Job and a Life: Organizing and Bargaining for Work Family Issues, a booklet by the national advocacy and policy organization Labor Project for Working Families. Through real-life examples, the booklet illustrates how workers have won flexible shifts, day care at work and other key benefits at the bargaining table. Paperback, $10, from The Union Shop Online.™ | |  | |  |
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 | | | | | In End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation, Barry Lynn argues that unfettered globalization is not creating the wealth and global stability its supporters claim. Rather, the new world economic system makes the U.S. economy more vulnerable to terrorism, war and natural disasters. At the same time, the nation is dependent upon China and other low-wage manufacturing countries to supply most of its goods. Lynn, a fellow at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit public policy institute, and former editor of Global Business magazine, proposes a new model of globalization that protects America’s prosperity. Hardback, $26, from Doubleday. | | | | |
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 | | | | | The Master of Seventh Avenue is the definitive biography of David Dubinsky, one of the American union movement’s most influential leaders. Author Robert Parmet, a history professor at the City University of New York, describes how Dubinsky escaped from czarist Poland to avoid arrests for union organizing and arrived in New York City in 1911, where he worked as a meat cutter and joined the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union. Elected ILGWU president in 1932, Dubinsky, who was known as a colorful personality and tough fighter for workers’ rights, led the union for 34 years and played a key role in the merger of the AFL and CIO. Dubinsky was instrumental in creating “social unionism”—in which unions take a role in providing workers with health care, housing and more. Hardcover, $45, from New York University Press. | | | | |
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WEBSIGHTING  | | | | | Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch launched the CAFTA Damage Report, an ongoing series of reports that track the consequences of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in districts where members of Congress voted for the agreement despite opposition from constituents or their own misgivings. Click on the names of lawmakers and link to reports about the impact of CAFTA on their districts and other pertinent information. | | | | |
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HOLIDAY CARDS
 | | | | | Celebrate the spirit of the holiday season with your choice of five different holiday greeting card designs: “Tree Dance,” “Tree of Life,” “Epiphany,” “Christmas Joy” and “Peace and Love.” Each set of 12 cards includes a bilingual message inside. The cards are union printed on recycled stock. Set of 12 cards and envelopes, $10, from The Union Shop Online.™
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