I'm sure the timber industry is glad it retook its historically appropriate title America's most dangerous job. An excerpt from my book manuscript draft, part of which explores the history of worker safety in logging. Sadly, things aren't always so different today: On August 28,...
Author: Erik Loomis
Matt and I have had our share of arguments over how to create a better life for working people, but I mostly endorse his statement about Guaranteed Basic Income. The.
Gabriel Winant's long-form book review of Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. A brief excerpt: People, too, suffered the violence of abstraction. Over.
The fact that Jefferson Davis played a role in giving the Civil War its name and that the name is a product of the losers writing the history of a war they started to defend the enslavement of black people makes me want to banish...
Freshmen in the 15th century had it rough: "Statute Forbidding Any One to Annoy or Unduly Injure the Freshmen. Each and every one attached to this university is forbidden to.
In a Democratic administration, OSHA makes alliances with women's groups to improve health and safety for women who work in construction. In a Republican administration, OSHA is controlled by industry.
The mining industry, conducting its usual anti-social, anti-environmental, and exploitative behavior, is pushing for new rules in New Mexico to escape having to go through a variance process to pollute the groundwater below its mining sites, reports the Santa Fe New Mexican The law could...
Yuengling owner Dick Yuengling, Jr. is an anti-union extremist who thinks Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett is "a great man," hates unions, and is leading the Keystone State fight to make.
I'll preface this by saying that I'm a member of the 1%: the one percent of Americans under the age of 40 who remains without a tattoo. So while I.
Claire Potter has her Ten Commandments of Graduate School, all of which I recommend highly. Thou shalt not rack up unnecessary credit card debt. You may need to take out student loans to pay for things like shelter, food, medical care and a decent laptop...
If you don't read Peter Gleick on water and the West, you really need to because he's the most important journalist focusing on this vital issue. And if he says.
Now this is an interesting history of the boardgame Monopoly: Hardly cosmetic, the changes introduce a whole new animating ideology to a game created to critique, not celebrate, corporate America..