Gabriel Winant on the Rusting of 'Steel City, USA' and the Rise of Healthcare
Today, healthcare workers account for the largest percentage of U.S. workers. Yet, their power pales in comparison to the unionized industrial workforce that preceded them, and whom it is their job no...
3 Juni 202152min
Cristina Groeger on Education, Labor, and Inequality in Boston
Despite the rising cost of tuition and a recent slump in college enrollment, many Americans continue to look to education to improve their social and economic status. Yet, more and more degrees have n...
3 Maj 202139min
Ronald Schatz on the Labor Board Vets and the Rise of Industrial-Labor Relations
In this episode, labor historian Ronald Schatz speaks about the National War Labor Board. Recruited by the government to help resolve union-management conflicts during World War II, many of the labor ...
27 Mars 202135min
Rebecca Marchiel on Redlining, Financial Deregulation, and the Urban Reinvestment Movement
The history of red-lining is one increasingly well-known within and beyond the academy. In the 1930s, as part of an attempt to shore up the struggling economy by underwriting home mortgages, the gover...
14 Feb 202145min
Katie Hindmarch-Watson on London's Telecommunications Work and Serving a Wired World
It is common these days to bemoan the amount of personal information companies like Amazon, Facebook, and other modern telecommunications goliaths collect about us. For many, this invasion of privacy ...
4 Jan 202143min
Shennette Garrett-Scott on Black Women in Finance
In this episode, Shennette Garrett-Scott explores black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first an...
2 Dec 202034min
Aaron Jakes on Colonial Economism and Egypt's Occupation
The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. In Egypt's Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crisis of Capitalism, Aaron Jakes chall...
2 Nov 202044min
Casey Lurtz on Globalization from the Grounds Up
The history of globalization is one that has often been told as a story of elites. There are a number of truths to this narrative. Yet, as Casey Lurtz shows, it also ignores some things. In From the G...
4 Sep 202048min
