Money

The death of Elma Sands and the Manhattan Company.

What was ethical consumption under capitalism?

The inventory he provided to tax assessors reveals just how profitable privateering was during the Revolutionary era.

The baby stroller is only the most visible symbol of the ethos of consumer capitalism that saturates American pregnancy and parenthood.

To understand today’s political battles, you need to know how they began.

A missed opportunity for genuine equity.

Is the working class experiencing a new CIO moment?

"Slouching Towards Utopia" is a rise-and-fall epic—but it is better at depicting the rise than explaining the fall.

Inflation hawks and inflation doves alike have learned the wrong lessons from the monetary policies of Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan.

An annotated collection of resources from the Bunk archive that help explain the long history of housing discrimination.

Today’s activists should look to North Carolina's black and white tobacco workers, who organized a union and went on strike in the teeth of the Jim Crow South.

Why do we eat pumpkin pie spice in the fall?

A commitment to internationalism helped build multi-ethnic campaigns within the more radical and anti-authoritarian side of the US labor movement.

Everyone would benefit from new rules forcing greater transparency in political donations.

The early history of rating credit in America.

During the Civil War, the Lincoln administration demonstrated that a progressive agenda and effective anti-inflationary measures could overlap.

Hurricane Fiona hit the island as only a Category 1 storm. But thanks to bad management, the electrical grid immediately collapsed.

While unionization in the service industry is increasingly in the news today, it is important to recognize that this is not a new development.

Lincoln's wartime governance had dire, and longstanding, economic consequences.

Although most enslaved people worked in the fields, captive workers with strong swimming and diving skills were also exploited by plantation owners.

Murdered during the 1929 Loray Mill strike, Ella May Wiggins became a working-class martyr—and a symbol of labor’s fight to democratize the anti-union South.

How new student loan programs turned students into consumers — and ignited a competition among universities that left them drowning in debt.

An excerpt from "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism."

The electricity industry knew about the dangers of climate change 40 years ago. It denied them anyway.

How to understand Adam Smith’s politics.

It exposes their failed mortgage debt relief policies after the Great Recession.

Ash derided women’s liberation as “that foolishness” – but her success story is very feminist.

Masks and social distancing are largely gone, but just as consequentially, a less visible pandemic intervention is ending: universally free school meals.

In 1970 Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.

Solidarity between men and women workers is crucial to advancing the cause of workers in America.