capitalism

Featured International Labor & Politics 

Renewing Working-Class Internationalism

January 2019February 2019 Aziz Rana capitalism, Democratic Party, empire, foreign policy, globalization, military-industrial complex, politics

Trump’s 2016 victory has generated a growing internal debate within left-leaning circles about the future direction of the Democratic Party.

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Featured Precarious Work 

Daniel in the Lion’s Den: Platform Workers Take on Tech Giants in the Workplace and the World

January 2019February 2019 Julianne Tveten capitalism, collective bargaining, corporations, industry, Labor, military-industrial complex, unorganized workers

In recent years, Silicon Valley’s platform workers have introduced a phenomenon previously alien to their industry: collective action. This process

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NLF Highlights U.S. Politics & Society 

The Big Other: A Theory of Surveillance Capitalism

January 2019January 2019 Paula Finn capitalism, collective action, democracy, digital technologies, internet, power, social inequality, surveillance, surveillance capitalism, twenty-first-century society

Highlights for Jan 22nd Original insights into the workings of an ever-evolving capitalism are rare occurrences. We are proud to

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U.S. Politics & Society 

Surveillance Capitalism and the Challenge of Collective Action

January 2019January 2019 Shoshana Zuboff capitalism, collective action, democracy, digital technologies, internet, power, social inequality, surveillance, surveillance capitalism, twenty-first-century society

Publisher’s note: This article has been published by permission of the author. Requests for article permissions and reprints should be

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Low-Wage Work NLF Highlights 

Amazon and the New Capitalism

December 2018December 2018 Paula Finn amazon, capitalism, job loss, technology

In this holiday season, if you’ve resisted online shopping through Amazon, you’re in the diminishing minority. More than half of

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NLF Highlights U.S. Politics & Society 

Blue Wave or Red Tide? Highlights for Nov 5th

November 2018November 2018 Paula Finn capitalism, democracy, Democratic Party, Democrats, elections, electoral politics

With perhaps the most important midterm elections in a generation happening tomorrow, we offer you: an invitation to join us

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The Environment 

Corbyn’s Class Act Is a Climate Game Changer

October 2018February 2019 Sean Sweeney capitalism, climate change, corporations, democracy, green economy

On September 12, 2015, Jeremy Corbyn was elected the leader of the Labour Party in Britain. Supported by several key

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Featured U.S. Politics & Society 

The New Geography of Suburbia: An Anatomy of America’s Hinterland

May 2018August 2018 Phil A. Neel capitalism, cities, crisis, deindustrialization, geography, industry, Marxism, riots

From suburban dreams to suburban nightmares.

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Featured U.S. Politics & Society 

Napoleons in Pinstripes: The Rise of the Business Mogul as Politician

May 2018August 2018 Lily Geismer capitalism, Democratic Party, elections, politics, privatization, Republican Party

The authoritarian threat when titans of business invade the political arena.

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Featured Precarious Work 

Making the Grade: Rating Professors

February 2018May 2018 Joshua Sperber adjuncts, capitalism, consumption, contingent workers, education, higher education, Labor, Winter 2018

How student consumerism tyrannizes adjuncts.

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