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
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Workers of the World Unite (At Last)
By Ronaldo Munck, Mention the labor movement today, and activists might ask, “What movement?” Indeed, the vibrant lab
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
Samir Amin: The Organic Intellectual
Taking as its point of departure this documentary, itself a feature of 50 books by Samir Amin, depicts the audacious str
On the relation between workers and socialists
By Julio Huato, The following reflections were written in response to a question that a former student of mine asked me a
Black Agenda Report: Blacks and Latinos Face “Global South” Conditions in USA
Black and Latino workers in the US are more favorable to unions because they “are most like workers in the Global South,”
Mind the Income Gap
By David Ruccio, Unless we change our tune and resolve to fundamentally alter the way the economy is organized, we’re go
The state and financialization: explaining recent European labor market policy
By Charles Umney, Ian Greer, Özlem Onaran, Graham Symon Why have neoliberal labor market policies survived the 2008 fi
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
Paddy Quick: Do workers benefit from increased education?
By Paddy Quick, It is always been true that the earnings of those with more education are, on average, greater than the ea
The Brief Origins of May Day
Most people living in the United States know little about the International Workers’ Day of May Day. For many oth
New Book: Class War, USA – Dispatches from Workers’ Struggles in American History
by Brandon Weber. From Haymarket Books: An engaging collection of riveting stories about working people in United Sta
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
New book: The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-1968)
by Philippe Bourrinet. From Haymarket Books: The most substantial history to date of the famous ultra-left’ tendenc
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
New Book: Unions and the City – Negotiating Urban Change
Edited by Ian Thomas MacDonald. From ILR Press: Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in ma
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