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Log drivers once steered loose timber on rivers across America before railroad expansion put such shepherds out of work.

An understanding of the history of gunpowder might be able to tell us how and why guns have become so widely accessible in the present-day United States.

Stephanie Mueller´s book sheds light on the percieved death of liberalism and the fear of corporations.

Two books argue that private equity created an economic order in which getting rich quickly preempts other values, undermining companies and evading the law.

Medical debt has always been part of the history of nonprofit hospitals.

Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political transformation.

The rifle is a consumer product to which advertisers successfully attached an identity—one that has translated to a particularly intractable politics.

And the ways capital took advantage of the state's policing of sexuality.

Looking at the development of cotton as a global commodity helps us understand how capitalism emerged.

The age of optimism that lasted in the US from the 1940s to the 1970s looked, basically, like a car.

And why won't all the worst people stop talking about it?

The neoliberal order has been exposed as fraudulent, inefficient, and inequitable. Yet it hardly lies in the dustbin of history.

Today’s strikers are seeking to renew the broadly shared prosperity that earlier UAW work stoppages created.

In 1873, greed, speculation and overinvestment in railroads sparked a financial crisis that sank the U.S. into more than five years of misery.

The first UAW strike was in the 1930s. Over the next century, the union amassed significant power while demanding higher wages, better benefits and protections.

By thinking big, Shawn Fain is summoning memories of Walter Reuther and the autoworkers’ union’s finest hour.

The current Hollywood strikes have a precedent in Disney’s golden age, when the company was a hothouse of innovation and punishing expectation.

Internal documents show what the oil giant said publicly was very different from how it approached the issue privately in the Tillerson era.

On the history of whaling and how we understand energy consumption.

Kate Mullany's former home in Troy, New York honors one of the earliest women's labor unions that sought fair pay and safe working conditions.

Hudson Yards received a $6 billion cocktail of public subsidies, including tax breaks and infrastructure improvements, to create a billionaires' playground.

Malcolm Ross is unknown today. That’s too bad. This son of privilege has much to teach us about labor and civic leadership.

On the centrality of the working classes to the Arab American immigrant experience and the pivotal roles Arab Americans played in American labor.

The 1941 strike, following the spectacular success of “Snow White,” stunned Walt Disney and rattled his now-storied company.

A re-examination of the Age of Exploration may have more than a little to teach us about modern venture capitalists.

Two recent books illuminate the dark foundations of Silicon Valley.

The study of poverty has flourished in recent decades. Why haven’t the lives of the poor improved?

Many of the reasons for strikes now mirror the motives that workers had for walking off the job in decades past.

“We could afford to end poverty,” Matthew Desmond tells us. That we don’t is a choice.

Florida’s new standards for teaching social studies include throwbacks to an interpretation of slavery as benign or inconsequential.