Manufacturing America’s Dreams
May 1, 2015
Gregg Shotwell is a retired UAW member who frequently contributes poems to the Blue Collar Review, and is the author of Autoworkers Under the Gun (Haymarket Press, 2012). Auto companies… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Labor
Marx on the Camino de Santiago: Meaning, Work, and Crisis
May 1, 2015
Janine Fitzgerald ranches with draft horses and teaches sociology at Fort Lewis College in southwest Colorado. These activities are possible only with the collaboration of her family, horses, colleagues, and… READ MORE
Neoliberal Co-optation of Leading Co-op Organizations, and a Socialist Counter-Politics of Cooperation
February 1, 2015
Carl Ratner is an academic cultural psychologist who studies the psychological affects of culture, especially macro, political culture. He was vice president of Northcoast Co-op Inc., the largest food co-op in… READ MORE
iCapitalism and the Cybertariat: Contradictions of the Digital Economy
January 1, 2015
Ursula Huws is Professor of Labour and Globalisation at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom, and founder of Analytica Social and Economic Research. This article is adapted from… READ MORE
Beyond the Degradation of Labor: Braverman and the Structure of the U.S. Working Class
October 1, 2014
R. Jamil Jonna is Associate Editor, Technology at Monthly Review. John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon.This is a slightly… READ MORE
South Africa’s Resource Curses and Growing Social Resistance
April 1, 2014
Patrick Bond teaches at University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, where he directs the Centre for Civil Society. His latest book, with John S. Saul, is South Africa—Present as History and… READ MORE
Spain, Economic Crisis, and the New Enclosure of the Reproductive Commons
April 1, 2014
Sandra Ezquerra received her PhD in sociology from the University of Oregon and is currently associate professor at Universitat de Vic, in Barcelona. She would like to thank Jaume Franquesa,… READ MORE
A Practical Solution to an Urgent Need
April 1, 2014
Gregg Shotwell is a retired UAW member who frequently contributes poems to the Blue Collar Review, and is the author of Autoworkers Under the Gun (Haymarket Press, 2012). This old… READ MORE
Saving Our Unions: Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win?
February 1, 2014
Steve Early was a national union representative and organizer for twenty-seven years. He is the author of three books about labor. This article is excerpted from his new book Save… READ MORE
Social Inequities and Exclusions in Kerala’s ‘Egalitarian’ Development
February 1, 2014
C.U. Thresia was trained in anthropology, social medicine, and community health; her research interests span politics and history of public health, and women’s health. She is currently pursuing research on… READ MORE