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La Choy cans and food

The Korean Immigrant and Michigan Farm Boy Who Taught Americans How to Cook Chow Mein

La Choy cans are a familiar sight in American grocery stores, but behind this 100-year-old brand is a story fit for Hollywood.

by Cathy Erway via TASTE on May 3, 2022

Mrs. Frank Leslie

‘Mrs. Frank Leslie’ Ran a Media Empire and Bankrolled the Suffragist Movement

A new book tells the scandalous secrets of a forgotten 19th-century tycoon, Miriam Follin Peacock Squier Leslie Wilde, also known as Mrs. Frank Leslie.

by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on March 28, 2022

Artistic depiction meant to represent the global supply chain. At center is planet Earth, which has a hole in the middle. Earth is surrounded by 3 intersecting rings of various colors. The rings depict freight transport (transporting goods by rail, sea, and truck).

How We Broke the Supply Chain

Rampant outsourcing, financialization, monopolization, deregulation, and just-in-time logistics are the culprits.

by David Dayden, Rakeen Mabud via The American Prospect on January 31, 2022

Fast food with the seal of the president on the containers.

How the State Created Fast Food

Because of consistent government intervention in the industry, we might call fast food the quintessential cuisine of global capitalism.

by Alex Park via Current Affairs on January 25, 2022

Donald Trump speaking at a meeting with small businesspeople at the White House on January 30, 2017.

Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection

The increasingly militant right supports the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded, and shareholder-owned.

by Melinda Cooper via Dissent on January 13, 2022

The Doomed Voyage of Pepsi’s Soviet Navy

A three-decade dream of communist markets ended in the scrapyard.

by Paul Musgrave via Foreign Policy on November 27, 2021

UC Berkeley campus

The Prophet of Academic Doom

Robert Nisbet predicted the managerialism that has brought universities low. But he also saw a way out.

by Ethan Schrum via The Chronicle of Higher Education on October 19, 2021

An public work space

The Idea of Work, From Below

Ideas about working from the employee perspective.

by Joel Suarez via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on September 6, 2021

Women working at typewriters in an office.

How ‘Automation’ Made America Work Harder

Computers were supposed to reduce office labor. They accomplished the opposite.

by Jason Resnikoff via Zócalo Public Square on September 2, 2021

Two hooded KKK members

The Ku Klux Klan Was Also a Bosses’ Association

The KKK violently resisted the revolutionary gains of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and sought to keep the black masses toiling in submission.

by Chad Pearson via Jacobin on July 27, 2021

The Five-Day Workweek is Dead

It’s time for something better.

by Anna North via Vox on July 13, 2021

Advertisement for Ethel Waters' record

The Rise and Fall of Black Swan Records

The story of the first major black-owned record label and the mystery behind the man who created it.

by Joe Richman via Radio Diaries on June 25, 2021

Drawing of the Alamo

How Racism, American Idealism, and Patriotism Created the Modern Myth of the Alamo and Davy Crockett

Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford on the making of a misrepresented narrative.

by Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford, Bryan Burrough via Literary Hub on June 22, 2021

Industry at Night, by Horatio C. Forjohn, 1940.

Weary of Work

When factories created a population of tired workers, a new frontier in fatigue studies was born.

by Emily K. Abel via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 28, 2021

Eli Lilly and Company. “Principal Office and Laboratories, Indianapolis, U.S.A.” Ink on paper, from the Hand Book of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 1919. Via Wikimedia Commons.

How To Make An Oligopoly

A seven-point memo proposing control of the global insulin market.

by Brittany McWilliams via Contingent on April 18, 2021

A graphic featuring illustrations of Stan Lee.

The Unheroic Life of Stan Lee

In a career of many flops, he laid claim to the outsized success of Marvel Comics.

by Jillian Steinhauer via The New Republic on February 9, 2021

Abstract illustration of life working remotely.

The Perpetual Disappointment of Remote Work

What the troubled history of telecommuting tells us about its future.

by Richard Cooke via The New Republic on January 4, 2021

Thorstein Veblen in 1880, the year he graduated from Carleton College

The Prophet of Maximum Productivity

Thorstein Veblen’s maverick economic ideas made him the foremost iconoclast of the Age of Iconoclasts.

by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on January 3, 2021

A car being made in a car factory

Talking About Auto Work Means Talking About Constant, Brutal Violence

It's remembered as one of the best industrial jobs a worker could get in postwar America. Less remembered is how brutal life on the factory floor was – and still is.

by Jeremy Milloy, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on October 23, 2020

The World Henry Ford Made

A new history charts the global legacy of Fordist mass production, tracing its appeal to political formations on both the left and the right.

by Justin H. Vassallo via Boston Review on October 9, 2020

Still from "Mad Men" in which advertising executive Don Draper is trying yoga.

The Radical History of Corporate Sensitivity Training

The modern-day human-resources practice is rooted in avant-garde philosophy.

by Beth Blum via The New Yorker on September 24, 2020

Postal workers comfort each other after a 1991 mass shooting

“I Understand Why He Did It”

On the origins of "going postal."

by Aaron Gordon via The Mail on September 22, 2020

The History of the USPS and the Politics of Postal Reform

Reform was framed as a way of removing “politics” from postal affairs and giving more autonomy to postal management. In time, it would prove to do neither.

by Ryan Ellis via TIME on August 18, 2020

Lou Gehrig holding a baseball bat

How Baseball Players Became Celebrities

Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth transformed America’s pastime by becoming a new kind of star.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on May 21, 2020

Postman in a mail truck.

The Founders Never Intended the U.S. Postal Service to be Managed Like a Business

The mail delivery agency is supposed to serve the public good — not worry about profit.

by Richard R. John via Made By History on April 27, 2020

Mike Pence in a warehouse.

CEOs Email You Heartfelt Coronavirus Messages, While Still Prioritizing the Bottom Line

Over 100 years, a tactic first designed to keep workers happy morphed into a marketing strategy.

by Andrew Lynn via Made By History on April 9, 2020

Barricades marking a baseball field as closed.

On What Should Have Been Opening Day, America Needs Baseball More Than Ever

When it's safe to return, baseball can play a big role in uniting Americans and providing comfort.

by Randy Roberts, Johnny Smith via Made By History on March 26, 2020

The Long Roots of Corporate Irresponsibility

Nicholas Lemann’s history of 20th century corporations, Transaction Man, shows how an unrelenting faith in the market and profit doomed the American economy.

by Rick Perlstein via The Nation on March 17, 2020

Cartoon caricature of Jack Welch.

Jack Welch Was a Bitter Foe of American Workers

The GE exec was known for his big personality. He should be known for the role he played in creating America's toxic corporate culture on a base of inequality.

by Erik Loomis via HNN on March 6, 2020

Rube Foster Was the Big Man Behind the First Successful Negro Baseball League

100 years ago, it took a combination of salesman and dictator to launch a historic era for black teams.

by John Florio, Ouisie Shapiro via Andscape on February 13, 2020

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