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Capitalism during this period is often described as conforming to a “virtuous” cycle of investment and hiring, in which increases in productivity and wages were mutually constitutive, rising together. This allowed for a “compromise” between capital and labor, in which workers would relinquish contr…

This is not a relationship of simple reflection, where art is a mirror held up to some underlying economic “base” assumed to hold the truth of the world, much less one of homology, where art reflects some mystical world spirit distributed evenly across the whole of society. Rather, I argue for a co…

By abolition, ­here I am thinking with the work of Rinaldo Walcott, who suggests that while an abolitionist future is not pos­si­ble without the abolition of police, nor is one feasible without the abolition of property.18 ­After all, it was the formation of private property that helped establish g…

aro is but one of five thousand Yardi employees working in thirty offices across several countries today, providing platforms and virtual property management systems to abet its clients. “Yardi Romania” is the com­pany’s third largest outsourcing firm, where it employs nearly five hundred workers. …

Caro had recently moved back to Cluj to be closer to her ­family while in the midst of finishing her dissertation on interwar feminist ­labor histories. Struggling to pay her expenses, she had managed to land a night shift job at an Office call center. She thought it was just some regular tech outs…