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Emma Tenayuca and the San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike of 1938.

The GM strike recalls the Flint sit-down strikes of 1936-7: a profit-hungry corporation, a fed-up workforce, and workers' willingness to take militant action.

Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?

While "meds and eds" have powered urban economies, they haven't been the gateway out of poverty that many hoped.

America has already witnessed the largest UBI experiment known to history — the postwar middle-class housewife. And she was utterly miserable.

Biden convinced small-government Republicans to increase spending in the War on Crime.

Over 136,000 GM workers participated in the strike in Flint, Michigan that became known as 'the strike heard round the world.'

Yuppies attract cafes and amenities to gentrifying neighborhoods. They also spark rising rents — and even violence.

In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.

White families quickly recuperated financial losses after the Civil War, then created a Jim Crow credit system.

Everything you knew about mass incarceration is wrong.

Organizers seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.

The New York Times is right that slavery made a major contribution to capitalist development in the United States — just not in the way they imagine.

Inequality comes in waves. The question is when this one will break.

What happened to America’s labor movement?

For generations, Southern white elites have been terrified of poor whites and black workers joining hands.

The famed economist’s “shareholder theory” provides corporations with too much room to violate consumers’ rights and trust.

The pitfalls and the potential of cryptocurrency are explored in three recent publications.

How a group of 19th-century Quakers cut their economic ties to slavery.

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.

Beyond the "casualty numbers and bloodshed," a new history takes into account the "social and structural issues" of disability among soldiers and veterans.

A shocking story about the biggest company in the US's most profitable industry.

My family is a success story. We’re also evidence of the long odds African Americans face on the path to success.

Between 1910 and 1997, black farmers lost about 90% of the land they owned.

In three centuries, the heresies of two bankers became the basis of our modern economy.

Employers pay tipped workers $2.13 an hour. Why? Reconstruction-era racial discrimination.

The billions spent on the Apollo program, no matter how inspiring the mission, laid bare the nation's priorities.

The inventor, who baked the first batch of the iconic gum 40 years ago, talks about the genesis of an American rite of passage.

The right turned Linda Taylor into a bogeyman. But her real life was much more complicated.

An investigation found that USDA promoted misleading historical data which ultimately cost black farmers land, money, and agency.