Ben Waterhouse on the Dream and Reality of Self Employment
One recent study found that 81% of businesses in the United States have zero employees. That is, they are run by sole proprietors, working for and by themselves, The ideal of self-employment has becom...
2 Apr 202439min
Brent Cebul on Business, Inequality, and American Liberalism
Most scholars would date the origins of neoliberalism to the 1970s, when a range of crises gave rise to new forms of market-oriented governance. But Brent Cebul, our guest on this month's episode, arg...
5 Mars 202445min
Tim Keogh on Suburban Poverty and the Roots of Postwar Inequality
In 2022, roughly one in 10 suburban residents lived in poverty (9.6%), compared to about one in six in primary cities (16.2%), according to a recent study by the Brookings Institute. The issue of subu...
6 Feb 202446min
Premilla Nadasen on the Care Economy and the Potential for Radical Care
Today, discussions of care are ubiquitous. From employer-programs promoting self-care to the $800 billion healthcare industry, care forms a central part of our lives and the economy. But, are the syst...
8 Jan 202441min
Hannah Forsyth on the Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World
Are you a professional living and working in an English-speaking country? If so, this episode is for you. Teachers, doctors, nurses, accountants, engineers, lawyers, social workers, the list goes on...
7 Nov 202346min
Bart Elmore on Southern Companies Remaking our Economy and the Planet
An iced cold Coca-Cola. A cross-country flight on Delta to visit friends. A much-needed medication overnighted via Fed-Ex. Bulk toilet paper purchased at Wal-Mart. What do these items have in common? ...
4 Sep 202336min
Mark Erlich on the Way We Build and Restoring Dignity to Construction Work
This month's episode gives a nod to one of the figures in our logo: the construction worker. Our guest, Mark Erlich has worked in the construction industry as a carpenter and union leader for a half c...
2 Aug 202331min
Chelsea Schields on Oil, Intimacy, and the Offshore
In this month's episode, guest Chelsea Schields discusses oil refining and intimacy, illuminating the social ties and affective attachments engendered by oil in the Dutch islands of Aruba and Curaçao...
3 Juli 202349min
