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Holly Sklar (born 1955) is an author and syndicated columnist for Z Magazine,[1] a policy analyst, and strategist whose articles have appeared in hundreds of newspapers and online outlets[2] including The Nation,[3] The Philadelphia Inquirer, and USA Today.[4][1]
Biography
Sklar is the founder and CEO of Business For a Fair Minimum Wage, "a national network of business owners and executives who believe a fair minimum wage makes good business sense."[5][6] She also serves on the board of directors of the American Sustainable Business Council.[6][7]
From 1975 to 1976, Sklar lived and worked in an agricultural region of Bolivia.[8] In 1978 she accepted an invitation to join the steering committee of the national conference taking place October that year, Women and Global Corporations: Work, Roles, and Resistance.[8]
On October 13, 2000, Sklar spoke at the New Jersey Project's fall conference entitled Now You See It, Now You Don't: Class in America at Essex County College, Newark, New Jersey.[9]
Sklar earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College and her Master of Arts degree from Columbia University.[8]
Writing
Sklar read several drafts of Right-wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort by Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons in preparation for publishing.[10]
Works
Books
- Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Boston: South End Press (1980). Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link. Excerpts.[11][12][13]
- Washington's War on Nicaragua. Boston: South End Press (1988). Template:ISBN.[14][15][16]
- Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood, with Peter Medoff. Boston: South End Press (1994). Template:ISBN.[17][18][19]
- Chaos Or Community?: Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics. Boston: South End Press (1995). Template:ISBN.[20]
- Shifting Fortunes: The Perils of the Growing American Wealth Gap. Boston: United for a Fair Economy (1999). Template:ISBN.[21]
- Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies that Work for All of Us, with Laryssa Mykyta & Susan Wefald. Boston: South End Press (2001). Template:ISBN.[22][23]
- A Just Minimum Wage: Good for Workers, Business, and Our Future, with Rev. Paul H. Sherry. Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee and the National Council of Churches USA (Oct. 2005). Template:ISBN.
Articles
- "Responses to Michael Massing: The U.S. Left and Nicaragua." The Nation (Apr. 20, 1985), p. 460.
- "Reading Nicaragua." The Nation (Sep. 7, 1985), pp. 185-192.
- "Out of Africa." The Nation (Jan. 25, 1986), p. 87.
- "Still Alive, Contadora Challenges Cold War." In These Times (Apr. 8, 1987), p. 17.
- "Rainbow Future." The Nation, vol. 248, no. 4 (Jan. 30, 1989), pp. 113–114.
- "The N.E.D.'s Ex-Nazi Adviser: Harbinger of Democracy?" (with Chip Berlet). The Nation (Apr. 2, 1990), pp. 450-457.
- "N.E.D., C.I.A., and the Orwellian Democracy Project" (with Chip Berlet). CovertAction Information Bulletin, no. 39 (Winter 1991), pp. 10–13. Full issue.
- "An Economic Bill of Rights." Earth Island Journal, vol. 11, no. 4 (Fall 1996), p. 39.
- "Titans of the Enron Economy: The Ten Habits Of Highly Defective Corporations." The Nation (Jul. 18, 2002).
- "Wall Street Has Already Voted." Z Magazine (Nov. 1, 2010).
Book contributions
- "Trilateralism: Managing Dependence and Democracy." In: Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Boston: South End Press (1980), pp. 1–58. Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link.[11][12]
- "Founding the Trilateral Commission: Chronology 1970-1977." In: Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Boston: South End Press (1980), pp. 76–82. Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link.[11][12]
- "The Commission's Purpose, Structure, and Programs: In Its Own Words." In: Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Boston: South End Press (1980), pp. 83–89. Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link.[11][12]
- "Who's Who on the Trilateral Commission." In: Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Boston: South End Press (1980), pp. 90–122. Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link.[11][12]
- "Trilateralism and the Management of Contradictions." In: Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Boston: South End Press (1980), pp. 555–586. Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link.[11][12]
- "Increasing the Minimum Wage Can Help the Working Poor." In: Poverty: Opposing Viewpoints, edited by Karen Balkin. San Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press (2004), pp. 126–129. Template:ISBN.
- "Imagine a Country." In: Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study, by Paula Rothenberg. New York: Worth Publishers (2010), pp. 284–289.
- "Raising Minimum Wage Does Not Increase Unemployment." In: Unemployment, edited by David M. Haugen and Megan Susser. Detroit, Mich.: Greenhaven Press (2011), pp. 60–66. Template:ISBN.
Pamphlets
- Poverty in the American Dream: Women & Children First. INC Pamphlet, no. 1. New York: Institute for New Communications (1983). Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link.
- Plant Closures: Myths, Realities, and Responses, no. 3. Boston: South End Press (1985). Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link.
- Reagan, Trilateralism, and the Neoliberals: Containment and Intervention in the 1980s, no. 4. Boston: South End Press (1986). Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link.[24]
- Titans of the Enron Economy: The Ten Habits of Highly Defective Corporations, with Scott Klinger. Boston: United for a Fair Economy (Apr. 10, 2002).
Posters
- Who's Who in the Reagan Administration. Boston: South End Press (1981). Template:Catalog lookup link.
Reports
- Jobs, Income, and Work: Ruinous Trends, Urgent Alternatives. Community Relations Division (Mar. 1995). Template:ISBN.
Filmography
- Cold Warriors: The Trilateral Commission [Documentary] (1984).
- Holly Sklar on Wages and Work [Interview]. Bill Moyers Journal, PBS (Jun. 13, 2008).
References
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- ↑ a b "About the Author." Chaos or Community?: Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics. Boston: South End Press, 1995. Template:ISBN. Template:Catalog lookup link. (p. 222)
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- ↑ "Holly Sklar". The Nation.
- ↑ "Alternative Radio: Holly Sklar"
- ↑ Official slogan of the Business For a Fair Minimum Wage organization.
- ↑ a b "About Holly Sklar." Entrepreneur.com
- ↑ "Holly Sklar CEO, Business for a Fair Minimum Wage." American Sustainable Business Council.
- ↑ a b c "About the Editor." Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Boston: South End Press, 1980. Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link. (p. viii) Excerpts available online.
- ↑ "Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Class in America." Feminist Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, Women and Health, Summer 2000, pp. 499-501. JSTOR 3178547
- ↑ Berlet, Chip; Lyons, Matthew N. Right-wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. New York: Guilford Press, 2000. Template:ISBN Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link (p. v)
- ↑ a b c d e f Phillips, Ronnie J. Review of Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management, by Holly Sklar. Library Journal, vol. 106, no. 8 (Apr. 15, 1981), p. 870. JSTOR 24458454.
- ↑ a b c d e f Bancroft, Nancy; Knapp, Peter H. Review of Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management, by Holly Sklar. CrossCurrents, vol. 31, no. 3 (Fall 1981), pp. 349-351.
- ↑ Rivière, Jean. Review of Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management, by Holly Sklar. Revue Française d'études Américaines, no. 16, Intellectuals in the United States (Février 83), p. 167. JSTOR 20873002.
- ↑ Review of Washington's War on Nicaragua, by Holly Sklar. Publishers Weekly (Jun. 28, 1999).
- ↑ Williams, Philip J. "The Nicaraguan Revolution in Perspective." Review of Nicaragua Divided: La Prensa and the Chamorro Legacy, by Patricia Taylor Edmisten; To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979, by Jeffrey Gould; Thanks to God and the Revolution: The Oral History of a Nicaraguan Family, by Dianne Walta Hart; Life Stories of the Nicaraguan Revolution, by Denis Lynn Daly Heyck; Washington's War on Nicaragua, by Holly Sklar. Latin American Research Review, vol. 27, no. 2 (1992), pp. 227-236. JSTOR 2503757.
- ↑ Morales, Waltraud Queiser. Washington's War on Nicaragua, by Holly Sklar. Third World Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 2 (Apr. 1990), pp. 165-168. JSTOR 3992271.
- ↑ Review of Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood, by Holly Sklar. Sustainable Communities Online.
- ↑ von Hoffman, Alexander. Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood, by Peter Medoff & Holly Sklar; Defending Community: The Struggle for Alternative Redevelopment in Cedar-Riverside, by Randy Stoecker; Community Builders: A Tale of Neighborhood Mobilization in Two Cities, by Gordana Rabrenovic. Journal of American History, vol. 85, no. 2 (Sep. 1998), pp. 761-763. JSTOR 2567902. Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers"..
- ↑ Hyde, Cheryl. Review of Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood, by Holly Sklar. Contemporary Sociology, vol. 25, no. 3 (May 1996), pp. 375-376. JSTOR 2077475. Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers"..
- ↑ MacKintosh, Maureen. Review of Chaos Or Community?: Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics, by Holly Sklar. Feminist Review, no. 60, Special Issue: Feminist Ethics and the Politics of Love (Autumn 1998), pp. 134-135. JSTOR 1395563.
- ↑ Review of Shifting Fortunes: The Perils of the Growing American Wealth Gap, by Holly Sklar. Whole Earth, no. 102 (Fall 2000), p. 97.
- ↑ Shulman, Beth. "Down and Out in America." Reviews of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich; Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work for All of Us, with Laryssa Mykyta & Susan Wefald. New Labor Forum, no. 11 (Fall-Winter 2002), pp. 120-125. JSTOR 40342370.
- ↑ Bartik, Timothy J. Review of Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work for All of Us, with Laryssa Mykyta and Susan Wefald. ILR Review, vol. 56, no. 4 (Jul. 2003), pp. 736-737. JSTOR 3590970. Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers"..
- ↑ Moreno, Dario. "Thunder on the Left: Radical Critiques of U.S. Central American Policy." Review of Reagan, Trilateralism, and the Neoliberals: Containment and Intervention in the 1980s, by Holly Sklar. Latin American Research Review, vol. 26, no. 3 (1991), pp. 226-234. JSTOR 2503673
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External links
- Holly Sklar at Internet Archive
- Holly Sklar interviews at Alternative Radio
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