The trade-union revival. (Bread roses).(international in scope) From: New Internationalist | Date: December 1, 2001| Author: Ransom, David | COPYRIGHT 2001 New Internationalist Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

If trade unions are dinosaurs, says David Ransom, we must all be living in Jurassic Park.

Otherwise, how to explain the presence of millions of trade unionists on city streets around the world every May Day? Why alt the blacklists and death lists of people who are doomed to extinction anyway?

The truth is that trade unions are still very much alive. They matter, and in future they are going to matter even more. For just so long as people have to sell their la...

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