Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rylan Higgins argues that it’s long past time to move beyond a boom-and-bust oilpatch economy. And Ryan Meili writes that workers and residents…
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The GM Strike and the Historical Convergence of Possibilities
Workers leave Flint Assembly plant early Monday, September 16, 2019 while taking part in a national strike against General Motors after stalled contract negotiations with General Motors. Photo by Ryan…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Daniel Tencer reports on Ray Dalio’s recognition that the economic system which made him a multi-billionaire is broken. And Harvey Cashore, Chelsea Gomez…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – David Jones writes about the important benefits enjoyed by workers as the result of the efforts of the labour movement. And Arindrajit Dube…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Edgardo Sepulveda writes about Chile’s popular revolt against austerity and inequality – while at the same time pointing out how Canada is…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Justin Fox writes that there are plenty of options available to push for the wealthiest few to pay their fair share toward…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Vrishti Beniwal writes about Abhijit Banerjee’s call to put concentrated wealth to better social use by taxing it. – Yutaka Dirks interviews…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee discuss the utter failure of corporate-driven “market” incentives to produce fair outcomes: If it is not financial incentives,…
bcgeu 100: six short videos about labour history in the province of bc
I love history — the history of anything that I’m interested in. Music, baseball, science and technology, and of course, the history of people’s movements. Women, peace, civil rights, LGBT…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Robert Frank reports on the latest galling threshold in wealth inequality, as millionaires consisting of less than 1% of the population now control…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Alexandra Zannis discusses the need to treat the end of poverty as a core policy goal. Peter Gilmer highlights how voters motivated by…
Doug O’Halloran, 66, Alberta union leader for more than 30 years, never shied from tough fights for his members
Doug O’Halloran, a pillar of the labour movement in Alberta and one of Canada’s last old-style union leaders, died peacefully yesterday. Mr. O’Halloran, who was 66, succumbed to cancer after…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joao Medeiros writes about Mariana Mazzucato’s push to have governments use collective wealth and power for the common good. – Matt Elliott…
Bryan Palmer: The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike heard around the world
Winnipeg, July 20, 2019: Professor Bryan Palmer at the 14th annual forum of the World Association for Political Economy. Photo: Paul S. Graham The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike was followed…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Peter Gowan and Thomas Hanna write about the urgent need to free people from the market forces which currently trap them in…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Franklin Foer writes that young climate activists are right to be anxious about the future that’s being imposed on them – and…
picket lines, pupdates, and the 51st parallel: 10 things on my mind
It’s been a while. 1. Mom went home. My mom went home two weeks ago, after spending seven weeks here. I was sad to see her go! We had a…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – The L.A. Times’ editorial board comments on the need for everybody to pitch in toward a just transition which preserves a habitable planet…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Meghna Charkabarti interviews Branko Milanovic about the destructive amount of inequality embedded in capitalism as it’s currently structured. Connor Kilpatrick and Bhaskar Sunkara…
The United Auto Workers and the Big Three Automakers: A Tale of Corruption
A Michigan Assembly Plant employee, trains to install seats in a Ford Ranger. Photo: Ford Motor Co. What follows is a somewhat complex tale of what happens when a labor…