As I wrote recent my piece on tipped labor, I did a little historical research on tipping. For the sake of length, I had to cut the history out of the article. But I found a lot of cool things and I thought I'd share...
Author: Erik Loomis
Sarah Jaffe has an important piece up at Alternet exploring the realities of public sector workers in the Second Gilded Age: Beil told a story of guards at a women's.
Building off Tim Wise, I have to wonder if the next frontier in racist white backlash against Trayvon Martin will be to accuse him of threatening a white woman, placing.
The 9-pound Gambian rat has invaded the Florida Keys, having been released there by an exotic animal breeder about 10 years ago. They are thriving, one of many species that are transforming south Florida, destroying the native wildlife and turning the swamps and islands of...
Feral pigs are expanding their range and will probably be across most of North America in the next 20 years. They cause a tremendous amount of damage, not only to.
I think I speak for everyone at LGM when I say this about the new season of Mad Men: OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! 3 hours and 18 minutes.
On March 25, 1911, 146 workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City died when the building in which they worked caught on fire. One of the most important events in American labor history, the Triangle Fire brought attention to the terrible sweatshop...
I have 5 spots open in a 20 team MLB fantasy baseball league at ESPN. Among the LGM luminaries you can play against are Dr. Robert Farley, Dr. David Noon.
This seems appropriate for a Saturday afternoon: Unfortunately, I am spending the day working on a book chapter, but I can still dream.
Last year, faculty at the University of Illinois-Chicago formed a union that combined both tenure-track and adjunct faculty in the same bargaining unit. Seeing a threat to its exploitation of cheap academic labor, the university administration sued. Although the union had won small victories at...
I've expressed my reservations before about the idea of a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower on the National Mall and scoffed at the protests by his granddaughters that part of the.
Charlie Pierce is right-on, as usual: My track record on this guy is pretty clear — and, occasionally, the topic of some hilarity around the home office. This is what.