New Book: How the World Works – The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day
By Paul Cockshott. From Monthly Review Press: Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the econ
Work
New book: Neoliberal Lives – Work, Politics, Nature, and Health in the contemporary United States
By Robert Chernomas, Ian Hudson and Mark Hudson. From Manchester University Press: This book is about the transformat
Making excuses for unemployment: The myth of a “skills gap”
By Martin Hart-Landsberg, It has taken ten years of expansion, but the U.S. unemployment rate has finally fallen below
Yes, We Can do Better Than Capitalism
By Richard D. Wolff, By democratizing our workplaces, we can supplant the dominant ecomomic system which cannot escap
New Book: Inequality, Boom, and Bust – From Billionaire Capitalism to Equality and Full Employment
By Howard J. & Paul D. Sherman, From Routledge: There is enormous inequality between the income and wealth of the ri
Call for papers: Labor and History in the 21st Century
40th Annual North American Labor History Conference October 18-20, 2018 Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan Th
RRPE Call for Papers: Special Issue on Precarious and Informal Work
Special Issue Collective: Ronaldo Munck, Tamar Diana Wilson, Ipsita Chatterjee, Ron Baiman, Lucia Pradella, Carlos
A 21st Century Marxism: The Revolutionary Possibilities of the “New Economy”
By Chris Wright It should hardly be controversial anymore to say we’re embarking on the “end times”
Call For Papers: The Poverty of Academia – Exploring the Realities of Working Class Academics
The Journal of Working-Class Studies Special Issue, December 2017: The Poverty of Academia: Exploring the (Intersec
New Book: Employers’ Economics versus Employees’ Economy – How Adam Smith’s Legacy Obscures Public Investment in the Private Sector
By John F. M. McDermott. From Palgrave: This book argues that economic activity in the public sphere now underwrites pr
LaborNotes: Building an Army to Fight Runaway Inequality
How can unions help create a social movement to take on Wall Street’s economic and political dominance? That’s t
EPI: Low-wage African American workers have increased annual work hours most since 1979
by Valerie Wilson & Janelle Jones Over the last several decades, black workers have been offering more to the econo
New Book by Harry Cleaver: Rupturing the Dialectic – The Struggle against Work, Money, and Financialization
From AK Press: Harry Cleaver’s pioneering Reading Capital Politically showed not only how capitalism seeks to
Marx on Immigration Workers, Wages, and Legal Status
by David L. Wilson On April 9, 1870, Karl Marx wrote a long letter to Sigfrid Meyer and August Vogt, two of his collaborato
New Book by James Young: Union Power – The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania
From Monthly Review Press: If you’re lucky enough to be employed today in the United States, there’s about a one-in-ten
New Book: Against Labor – How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism
From University of Illinois Press: Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselv
Nancy Folbre & Kristin Smith on The Wages of Care: Bargaining Power, Earnings & Inequality
by Nancy Folbre & Kristin Smith From the abstract: The uneven bargaining power of both firms and workers may be cont
URPE Brooklyn Conference: Left-Wing Economics in a Right-Wing Political Climate
St. Francis College, Brooklyn NY, April 8, 2017 The Conference will bring together the theoretical perspectives of ra