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An ad published in the first issue of 'Consumer Reports' (1936).

Can Consumer Groups Be Radical?

A historian looked at the consumer movements of the 1930s to find out.

by Lawrence B. Glickman, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on May 16, 2018

Blurry photo of shelves of food in a supermarket aisle.

The Great American Supermarket Lie

Instead of highlighting the glories of capitalism, supermarkets expose the inequalities it creates.

by Shane Hamilton via Made By History on April 27, 2018

Worlds Apart

How neoliberalism shapes the global economy and limits the power of democracies.

by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on April 23, 2018

From Progress to Poverty: America’s Long Gilded Age

The America that emerged out of the Civil War was meant to be a radically more equal place. What went wrong?

by Steven Hahn via The Nation on April 18, 2018

Martin Luther King Jr.: 50 Years Later

Activists today are taking up Dr. King’s mantle and reviving the Poor People’s Campaign.

by Michael K. Honey via The Nation on April 3, 2018

Factory Made

A history of modernity as a history of factories struggles to see beyond their walls.

by Padraic X. Scanlan via The New Inquiry on March 30, 2018

Banking Against (Black) Capitalism

A review of "The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap."

by Armond Towns, Carolyn Hardin via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 19, 2018

Agriculture Wars

On country music as a lens through which to trace the corporatization of American farming.

by Nick Murray via Viewpoint Magazine on March 12, 2018

For Tech Giants, a Cautionary Tale from 19th Century Railroads on Competition’s Limits

How much monopoly is too much monopoly?

by Richard White via The Conversation on March 6, 2018

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

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