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Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health

WebFirst, deindustrialization is a prime source of (1) labor market dislocation (job/income loss). In Eastern Europe during the early 1990s, many lost their jobs and …

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Public health rediscovers the health threatening character of

WebFriedrich Engels in his 1845 Condition of the Working Class in England documented how capitalist practices prematurely sickened and then killed workers, a …

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The class struggle over democracy Section on Marxist Sociology

WebThe class struggle over democracy. Democracy, they say, is in crisis. The Washington Post ran a Super Bowl ad warning us that “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”. …

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Expanding workplace precarity through the prism of the pandemic

WebWe argue that in already precarious workplaces, workers experienced expanded dimensions of precarity: 1) moments of what we call precarious stability, 2) …

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Basic Income, Wellness and Changing Forms of Productivity

WebThe COVID-19 pandemic has seen the furloughing and laying-off of millions of workers worldwide. Alongside stay-in-place and lockdown mandates, and in response to …

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Southern Labor is Key to Change in the United States

WebThe interracial labor battles of the 1930s and 1940s and the 1950s to 1970s civil rights struggles taking place in the South, served as inspirational beacons in the last …

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How does actual inequality affect people’s perception of inequality

WebThis creates a counterbalancing effect that obscures the aggregate relationship between actual and rising inequality and people’s perceptions of it. At lower …

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Dying to work: Hawai’i hotel workers organize in the face of …

WebThe COVID-19 pandemic-induced 2020 lockdown in the US led to the explicit and public recognition of some workers as essential and others not. Among those …

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Can poetry help overthrow capitalism

WebUsing the arts and humanities to suggest how society – including the economic system of capitalism — could be transformed to promote health is even less common. German …

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Laboring Bodies at the Choke Point

WebIn recent years, a number of texts have suggested that containerisation and the globalisation of production have transformed the logistics sector into a space of …

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Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism and the University

WebThe growing concentration of value and knowledge in a few big corporations that became intellectual monopolies induced different forms of academic capitalism. I …

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Studying Las Vegas reveals military sites contribute to …

WebWhile Las Vegas is known as an adult playground of indulgence, Las Vegas is also a military town—it is home to Nellis Air Force Base. In fact, Nevada has a history …

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Why a 19th century concept of “social murder” is very much …

WebSocial murder is a term coined by Friedrich Engels in 1845 in one of his seminal works, The Conditions of the Working Class in England.Engels was Karl Marx’s …

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Labor and the Social Crisis at France Telecom

WebThe French courts recently found the telecommunications firm Orange/France Telecom and its top managers guilty of “moral harassment” connected to …

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An Organic Crisis Is Upon Us Section on Marxist Sociology

WebSocial reproductive: Millions of workers deemed “essential” in this country aren’t getting hazard pay or even basic personal protective equipment.In the sphere of …

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Marxism and the race problem Section on Marxist Sociology

WebBy Charles Post | Jan 2, 2019. |. Marxism has had a difficult relationship with non-class oppressions like gender and race. For most, historical materialism is “race” and “gender …

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Neoliberalism After Apartheid: From South Africa to Palestine/Israel

WebThe effort to silence Marc Lamont Hill after his recent UN speech sparked debate about his call for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea.” Faced with …

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Why Didn’t Marx Finish Capital

WebThe question why Marx’s Capital remained unfinished has occupied many for more than a century. It is sufficiently known that Marx wrote most of the manuscripts that …

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Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Higher Education

WebI recently published an article in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology that uses the “student as customer” to help understand why college is so …

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Women and Household Labor in Contemporary China

WebA long-standing element of the Chinese revolution since the 19 th century is the liberation of women, especially from patriarchy, and the related physical bondages …

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