The Violence of the 24-Hour Workday: Fighting Exploitation
The 24-hour-working immigrant underclass drags down the conditions of workers of all races, genders, and class positions across industries
Read more...The 24-hour-working immigrant underclass drags down the conditions of workers of all races, genders, and class positions across industries
Read more...How Danish workers got McDonalds to comply with local labor practices, including high wages.
Read more...Did the controversy around AOC’s “Tax the Rich” dress advance the cause of reducing inequality?
Read more...Gig workers, specifically deliveristas, are en route to securing important workplace protections, like minimum wages and bathroom rights.
Read more...Examinging how algorithmic management works and why it is likely to become even more widespread.
Read more...Why are so many young men giving up on college?
Read more...A wrongheaded paper from the Jackson Hole conference that depends on the loanble funds fallacy lets central bankers off the hook.
Read more...Urban planning has been used to classify, segregate and compromise people’s opportunities based on race. Highway removal can improve urban neighborhoods.
Read more...The US avoided mass starvation in 2020 mostly because the federal government stepped in to dramatically increase food and cash aid.
Read more...From taming Big Tech to competing with China, Western governments are retreatig from neoliberalism. But what comes next?
Read more...On how imperialism enabled exploitation of labor in the global South, and then pressure on worker wages in advanced economies.
Read more...How much should Californians worry that Larry Elder, a politically inexperienced, hard core right winger, might become governor?
Read more...Yves here. This is the second section of the GPENewdoc historical series on imperialism and capitalism. You can find Part 1 here. By Lynn Fries. Originally published at GPENewsdocs Prabhat Patnaik explains how the colonial system led to depression. Then, in advanced countries governments stepped in to increase demand and productivity, but how unless the […]
Read more...Prabhat Patnaik on imperialism and capitalism: to accumulate wealth, somewhere demand must be suppressed to provide cheap inputs.
Read more...Commemorating a desructive anniversary, that of the Powell memo that set forth how big business would wage war against ordinary citizens.
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