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The music industry is thriving — but it’s not always trickling down to artists.

Rail deregulation led to consolidation, price-gouging, and a variant of just-in-time unloading that left no slack in the system.

The Panamanian garment worker turned labor organizer, Pan-Africanist, and anti-colonial activist advocated for US and African workers amid a Cold War freeze.

These Quakers led some of the early campaigns against sugar being produced by enslaved people.

How the unsustainable growth of the container ship industry led to the supply chain crisis.

84 years ago this week, this Mexican American labor organizer led one of the largest strikes in Texas history—and was arrested and blacklisted for her trouble.

Political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. discusses his new memoir.

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

The Lehman Trilogy proposes that the downfall of a financial dynasty is enough to tell the economic and political history of America.

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

The man who introduced mesmerism to the US was a slave-owner from Guadeloupe, where planters were experimenting with “magnetizing” their enslaved people.

World War I saw the availability of potash plummet, while its price doubled. The US found this critical component for multiple industries in Pacific kelp.

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

Before the Civil War, US activists sought to combat slavery through sugar boycotts. Instead, consumption grew.

Before the rise of macroeconomics that accompanied World War II, price determination was a central problem of economic thought.

The trailblazing Black labor leader and civil rights activist took her fight for equality from the packinghouse to the pulpit.

U.S. government policies must continue to support physical and social infrastructure spending amid the continuing pandemic to avoid ‘stagflation’.

When it seemed that steel had lost its gleam with American consumers, the industry turned to marketing to make it shine again.

By following the money, a new history of urban inequality turns our attention away from federal malfeasance and toward capital markets and financial instruments.

Insuring against the cost of insurance itself in Revolutionary-era America.

When Thomas Jefferson’s administration was debating whether to declare war against Britain, it came up against America’s wealthy and influential marine underwriters.

In the early 20th century, labor unrest and strike breaking were done not by the government, but by private agencies and self-appointed vigilantes.

East European Jews and the lost world of immigrant banking.

The recent panic over retail theft reveals tensions at the heart of American consumerism.

A century of tax avoidance later, the dynasties created in the 1900s are going strong.

On the failed dreams and forgotten ruins of William Hope Harvey.

“What if we identified the politics of municipal debt as circumscribing political horizons and futures?”

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

How a story told by a fugitive from slavery became a parable of American banking gone bad.

W.E.B. Du Bois defined the shift from slavery to freedom as a “general strike” — and there are parallels to today.