Holly Sklar (born 1955) is an author and syndicated columnist for Z Magazine,"About the Author." Chaos or Community?: Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics. Boston: South End Press, 1995. . . (p. 222) a policy analyst, and strategist whose articles have appeared in hundreds of newspapers and online outlets including The Nation,"Holly Sklar". The Nation. The Philadelphia Inquirer, and USA Today."Alternative Radio: Holly Sklar"

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."Official slogan of the Business For a Fair Minimum Wage organization. She also serves on the board of directors of the American Sustainable Business Council."About Holly Sklar." Entrepreneur.com"Holly Sklar CEO, Business for a Fair Minimum Wage." American Sustainable Business Council.

From 1975 to 1976, Sklar lived and worked in an agricultural region of Bolivia."About the Editor." Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Boston: South End Press, 1980. , , . (p. viii) Excerpts available online. 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.

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."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.

Sklar earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College and her Master of Arts degree from Columbia University.

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.Berlet, Chip; Lyons, Matthew N. Right-wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. New York: Guilford Press, 2000. (p. v)

Works Books Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Boston: South End Press (1980). . . Excerpts.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. .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. . Washington's War on Nicaragua. Boston: South End Press (1988). .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. .Morales, Waltraud Queiser. Washington's War on Nicaragua, by Holly Sklar. Third World Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 2 (Apr. 1990), pp. 165-168. . Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood, with Peter Medoff. Boston: South End Press (1994). .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. . .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. . . Chaos Or Community?: Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics. Boston: South End Press (1995). .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. . Shifting Fortunes: The Perils of the Growing American Wealth Gap. Boston: United for a Fair Economy (1999). .Review of Shifting Fortunes: The Perils of the Growing American Wealth Gap, by Holly Sklar. Whole Earth, no. 102 (Fall 2000), p. 97. Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies that Work for All of Us, with Laryssa Mykyta & Susan Wefald. Boston: South End Press (2001). .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. .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. . . 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). .

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). 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. . . "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. . . "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. . . "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. . . "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. . . "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. . "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. .

Pamphlets Poverty in the American Dream: Women & Children First. INC Pamphlet, no. 1. New York: Institute for New Communications (1983). . . Plant Closures: Myths, Realities, and Responses, no. 3. Boston: South End Press (1985). . . Reagan, Trilateralism, and the Neoliberals: Containment and Intervention in the 1980s, no. 4. Boston: South End Press (1986). . .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. 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). .

Reports Jobs, Income, and Work: Ruinous Trends, Urgent Alternatives. Community Relations Division (Mar. 1995). .

Filmography Cold Warriors: The Trilateral Commission [Documentary] (1984). Holly Sklar on Wages and Work [Interview]. Bill Moyers Journal, PBS (Jun. 13, 2008). Watch online.

References

External links Holly Sklar at Internet Archive Holly Sklar interviews at Alternative Radio