Introduction: the working hypothesis -- What work is worth -- As American as economic pie -- Productive pluralism -- The labor market -- A future for work -- Turning around -- The environment and the economy -- Teaching to the rest -- The importance of borders -- More perfect un…
Introduction: from the fringes of the nation to the world -- In search of social reform -- "The Argentine problem? -- Apostles of social revolution -- From the belly of the beasts -- At the turn of the tide -- Political declension -- A bitter pill -- Conclusion: branding mass po…
"Long known as the world's factory, China is the largest manufacturing economy ever seen, accounting for more than 10% of global exports. China is also home to the largest workforce on the planet, the crucial element behind its staggering economic success. But who are China's wo…
Safeway: changing the math -- The new suffragists: the fight for meaningful corporate elections -- The silence of the lions: reining in hedge funds and private equity -- Checks and imbalances: saying no to the imperial CEO -- The people's lobbyists versus private equity -- The n…
Written in 1932, just before the fall of the Weimar Republic and on the eve of the Nazi accession to power, Ernst Jünger{u2019}s The Worker: Dominion and Form articulates a trenchant critique of bourgeois liberalism and seeks to identify the form characteristic of the modern age…
Over a period of six years, at factory and warehouse, at the tavern across the road, in their homes and union meetings, on fishing trips and social outings, David Halle talked and listened to workers of an automated chemical plant in New Jersey's industrial heartland. He has eme…
