deindustrialization
Max German is a former student of mine and I wanted to highlight his essay on how why working people abandoned Democrats. It makes a lot of sense to me..
On November 11, 1978, President Jimmy Carter vetoed HR 9937, which prohibited US trade negotiators from reducing textile tariffs. This typically terrible decision by the Carter administration on issues of.
We know that union membership is the single biggest factor in getting white working class Americans to not vote for their perceived racial interests and instead vote to be part.
"Economic anxiety!" has become a joke in discussions of the Trump phenomenon. I've never been fully comfortable with this, for reasons I'll get into in a second, but I also.
Donald Trump really brought the jobs back to Michigan and Pennsylvania.....Four years after he won the Midwest by vowing to revitalize the U.S. manufacturing workforce, President Donald Trump is campaigning.
Sarah Jaffe has an outstanding long-form article in The New Republic on the closing of the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio. That plant, which I hardly have to tell.
Last night I went to a showing of Mr. Mom, the 1983 film about a middle-class man who loses his job and is forced to stay at home while his.
Yglesias has a piece on a topic that alarms him, even though he isn't quite willing to deal with the larger implications. Basically, the.
