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In the Shadows of Slavery’s Capitalism

"Masterless Men" shows how the antebellum political economy made poor southern whites into a volatile, and potentially disruptive, class.

by Calvin Schermerhorn via Black Perspectives on March 5, 2018

Amazon’s Labor-Tracking Wristband Has a History

Jeff Bezos is stealing from a 19th-century playbook.

by Stephen Mihm via Bloomberg on February 23, 2018

This, Our Second Nadir

Why the Trump Era demands a better understanding of how racism got us into this mess.

by N. D. B. Connolly via Boston Review on February 21, 2018

Black and Red

The history of Black Socialism in America.

by Tanna Tucker, Nestor Castillo via The Nib on February 14, 2018

A souvenir superbowl 53 football outside of a stadium

The NFL: America’s Socialist Utopia

The Super Bowl might be a capitalist bonanza — but its creation was the ultimate socialist act.

by Jesse Berrett via Made By History on February 2, 2018

The World the Cold War Built

A new book says the conflict began in the late 19th century and subsumed even World War II as our defining event.

by Leon Hadar via The American Conservative on January 31, 2018

Conservatives and Counterrevolutionaries

Lily Geismer reviews the second edition of Corey Robin’s “The Reactionary Mind.”

by Lily Geismer via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 19, 2018

Martin Luther King’s Radical Anti-Capitalism

As King’s attention drifted to the problems of the urban north, his critiques came to focus on the economic system itself.

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via The Paris Review on January 15, 2018

What These Early-20th-Century Scholars Got Right About 21st-Century Politics

Unlike many economists today, they questioned fundamental social structure.

by Branko Milanović via Vox on January 10, 2018

John Dewey's Experiment in Democratic Socialism

Despite his reputation as a liberal, Dewey's staunch commitment to democracy put him on a collision course with capitalism.

by Alexander Livingston, Ed Quish via Jacobin on January 8, 2018

The Kids Aren’t Alright

A crucial new work of generational analysis explores how society turned millennials into human capital.

by Natasha Lennard via Dissent on January 1, 2018

Arthur Mervin, Bankrupt

An 18th-century novel explores how American society handles capitalism's collateral damage — and who deserves a second chance.

by Katherine Gaudet via Commonplace on January 1, 2018

When Deregulation is Deadly

Eight decades after the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire, corporate profits are still being valued more than workers' lives.

by Bryant Simon via Gender Policy Report on December 20, 2017

The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the U.S. Antitrust Movement

A short history puts contemporary anti-monopoly movements in context.

by Ariel Ezrachi, Maurice E. Stucke via Harvard Business Review on December 15, 2017

Amazon or Independence Hall? Development vs. Preservation in the City of Philadelphia

A history of Independence Hall offers an example of how old buildings and open spaces are not always ripe sites for development.

by Whitney Martinko via Hindsights on December 11, 2017

Before Net Neutrality, There Was Radio Regulation

How today's media landscape was shaped by a 1920s decision to privilege corporate broadcasters over noncommercial ones.

by Livia Gershon, Robert W. McChesney via JSTOR Daily on December 11, 2017

Customers at an African American bank in Harlem.

We Need More Government, Not Less, in The War on Poverty

The myth of the “dependent” poor.

by Mehrsa Baradaran via Made By History on December 8, 2017

The Shark and the Hound

America’s long history of predatory lending.

by Meagan Day via The Baffler on December 1, 2017

Game board with squares about life events.

Board Games Were Indoctrination Tools for Christ, Then Capitalism

The very weird tale of how American board games used to teach you how to get to heaven, and later, how to make bank.

by Robert Rath via Waypoint on November 30, 2017

America’s Real Estate Developer in Chief

Donald Trump's rise to power was fueled by the profits of predatory real estate ventures.

by Thomas J. Sugrue via Public Books on November 27, 2017

We’ve Got the ’70s-Style Rage. Now We Need the ’70s-Style Feminist Social Analysis.

Amid all the stories about harassment and abuse, there’s been hardly any discussion about how we got here.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on November 20, 2017

Barack Obama and Shinzo Abe at the Lincoln Memorial.

Technocratic Vistas: The Long Con of Neoliberalism

How "liberal democracy" emerged from the wreckage of World War II and became the dominant ideology of our times.

by Jackson Lears via The Hedgehog Review on November 13, 2017

The Small Business Myth

Small businesses enjoy an iconic status in modern capitalism, but what do they really contribute to the economy?

by Benjamin C. Waterhouse via Aeon on November 8, 2017

A line of prisoners picking cotton in Huntsville, Texas.

The Oil Boom’s Roots in East Texas Cotton Farming

Oil’s rise was as dependent on the old as much as the new. The industry also benefited from changes in agriculture.

by Scot McFarlane via Texas Monthly on November 1, 2017

Our Cold War World

How the contest between capitalism and communism shaped world politics—and defines today’s inequalities.

by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on October 30, 2017

Children playing stick ball in the alley.

How the U.S. Government Locked Black Americans Out of Attaining the American Dream

The wealth gap between white Americans and black Americans is stark.

by Mehrsa Baradaran, Emma Roller via Splinter on October 11, 2017

Marx in the United States

A conversation with the author of a forthcoming book about the twists and turns of Marx's legacy in America.

by Andrew Hartman, Magnus Møller Ziegler, Tobias Dias via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on October 4, 2017

Commercial Surveillance State

Blame the marketers.

by Matthew Crain, Anthony Nadler via n+1 on September 27, 2017

How Puerto Rico Recovered Before

The island’s New Deal history offers an alternative to disaster capitalism.

by Kate Aronoff via In These Times on September 26, 2017

Strikers, Scabs, and Sugar Mongers

How immigrant labor struggles shaped the Hawaii we know today.

by Natasha Varner via Jacobin on August 22, 2017

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