Global Left Midweek – April 10, 2024
Portside
Overviews and takeaways
Overviews and takeaways
Overviews and takeaways
books
Wall Street’s War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What To Do About It
Portside
Leopold’s new book offers a closer and more detailed look at how wealth extraction occurs, how workers bear the brunt of it, and how this dynamic challenges our political organizing efforts by labor unions and other progressive change organizations.
Global Left Midweek – March 21, 2024
Portside
On the electoral front, surges and splits
Data Show Anti-Union ‘Right-To-Work’ Laws Damage State Economies
Economic Policy Institute
As Michigan’s repeal takes effect, New Hampshire should continue to reject ‘right-to-work’ legislation
Immigrants Make America Stronger and Richer
New York Times
Negative views of the economics of immigration are all wrong. Far from taking jobs away, foreign-born workers have played a key role in America’s recent success at combining fast growth with a rapid decline in inflation.
books
The Gender of Capital
LSE Review of Books
In this book, writes reviewer Sharma, the authors argue that despite supposed equality, women in all classes of society are economically disadvantaged with respect to their husbands, fathers, and brothers.
Looking Back at the Steelworkers Fight Back Campaign – Part 3
Stansbury Forum
3rd in three-part posting on Steelworkers Fightback reform movement in the 1970s. Brown documents issues and personalities that drove the movement of relevance today in understanding and appreciating reform movements underway today.
What’s Behind the Summit of South American Nations in Brasilia?
Aljazeera
Brazil’s president wants economic and political bloc to benefit region. Leaders from South America’s 12 nations are meeting in Brazil. Their host president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is calling for more unity and even a new single currency.
Media Bits and Bytes – February 7, 2023
Portside
What's missing from economics coverage?
The Class Conflict Between Elites and Workers Goes Back to America’s Founding
Jacobin
You wouldn’t know it from the widespread glorification of America’s “founding fathers,” but the years around American independence were shot through with class conflict between elites and working people. And most of the founding fathers were on the wrong side.
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