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
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When McDonalds Came to Denmark
How Danish workers got McDonalds to comply with local labor practices, including high wages.
Read more...“Yes, AOC’s Dress Was Performative Politics, But She Got Her Point Across”
Did the controversy around AOC’s “Tax the Rich” dress advance the cause of reducing inequality?
Read more...NYC Set to Pass Food Delivery App Laws Securing Workers Minimum Pay, Bathrooms and More
Gig workers, specifically deliveristas, are en route to securing important workplace protections, like minimum wages and bathroom rights.
Read more...Algorithmic Management
Examinging how algorithmic management works and why it is likely to become even more widespread.
Read more...Record Level of American Men Foregoing College
Why are so many young men giving up on college?
Read more...Why the Rich Get Richer and Interest Rates Go Down
A wrongheaded paper from the Jackson Hole conference that depends on the loanble funds fallacy lets central bankers off the hook.
Read more...Removing Urban Highways Can Improve Neighborhoods Blighted by Decades of Racist Policies
Urban planning has been used to classify, segregate and compromise people’s opportunities based on race. Highway removal can improve urban neighborhoods.
Read more...With 38 Million Facing Food Insecurity, Hunger in US Soared by Nearly 9% in 2020
The US avoided mass starvation in 2020 mostly because the federal government stepped in to dramatically increase food and cash aid.
Read more...Neoliberalism Is Dying – Now We Must Replace It
From taming Big Tech to competing with China, Western governments are retreatig from neoliberalism. But what comes next?
Read more...Imperialism Then and Now: Capital Relocation, Inequality, Encroachment and Protracted Crisis
On how imperialism enabled exploitation of labor in the global South, and then pressure on worker wages in advanced economies.
Read more...Could California End Up With a Trump-Like Governor?
How much should Californians worry that Larry Elder, a politically inexperienced, hard core right winger, might become governor?
Read more...Imperialism Then and Now: Drain of Wealth, Depression, The Role of the State and Globalization
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...Imperialism Then and Now: Wealth, Unemployment and Insufficient Demand
Prabhat Patnaik on imperialism and capitalism: to accumulate wealth, somewhere demand must be suppressed to provide cheap inputs.
Read more...50th Anniversary of Powell Memorandum: Neoliberalism Has Wrecked Its Hosts
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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