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Stepping into the Void: A New Agenda for Global Labor
Pranab Bardhan suggests a way forward for the global working class.
Economics and Finance
Nomads
On Jessica Bruder's "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century."
An Excerpt from “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now”
Girshriela Green felt a weight lift from her shoulders when she founded Respect the Bump, an advocacy group for pregnant Walmart workers.
Banking Against (Black) Capitalism: On “The Color of Money”
Armond Towns and Carolyn Hardin considers Mehrsa Baradaran's recent book.
Radical Optimization: On “Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement”
On Carl Cederström and André Spicer's "Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement" and the obsession with optimization in a neoliberal world.
Whose University Is It Anyway?
Can higher education be saved from the all-administrative university?
Everything Mall Is New Again
“The citizen in a mall-city assumes submission as a constant pose: there is nowhere else.” Krithika Varagur on the malls of Jakarta.
The Neoliberal Feminist Subject
How neoliberalism is co-opting and undermining feminism.
Is Government a Protection Racket? How Wheat and Taxes Built the Ancient States
The foundation of the state isn’t warfare; it’s actually the tribute that a strongman would demand from your garden.
The Time of Finance
Neoliberal policy embraced the idea that the concern with fundamental values was of little use. What mattered was keeping the system going.
Et in Arcadia Ego
How did René Descartes produce "cheap lives"? John W. W. Zeiser on "A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things."
Permanent Precarity for American Millennials
Reece Rogers is rallied by “Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials” by Malcolm Harris.
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