[...] If there's one lesson we can learn from the War it's that fascists don't always lose. The arc of history is not a missile defense system and sometimes righteous solidarity makes for full prison camps.
By now you may have spotted the problem. When workers improve their skills it doesn’t entitle them to more pay, or ensure them more pay — it merely enables companies to pay more. And given the option, companies would rather not pay you more.
Employers like to talk about the “skills gap,” but the…
[...] wage theft isn't limited to fruit stands and single-factory garment manufacturers. "Some of the largest, most well-respected companies on the planet will shave a little time here, shave a little time there," Shalov says, "and at the end of the day if they end up saving money, if it helps thei…
In some ways, Zuckerberg seems the classic underdog. At Harvard, he is shut out of the elite campus clubs. In a school of suits, he wears hoodies. He is short, nerdy, and oh so Jewish, especially compared with the Olympian (literally) Winkelvosses. While the twins party with gyrating hotties, he co…
But to think about American slaves merely as coerced and unpaid laborers is to misunderstand the institution. Slaves weren’t just workers, the Sublettes remind the reader—they were human capital. The very idea that people could be property is so offensive that we tend retroactively to elide the d…
