Jordan Barab’s “Confined Space” (http://spewingforth.blogspot. com) and other labor-oriented Internet “blogs” have brought workers’ concerns, perspectives, and strategic debates to the public square. In doing so, they fill an enormous need no longer met by other media. Labor news currently receives short shrift in major U.S. newspapers, the business press, and broadcast news. The “labor beat” was at one time a prestigious assignment for journalists, but few now claim it.
