A Revisit – book review from 2001 – When Work Disappears- WJ Wilson
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Here is a book review I posted on markorton.com 3.24.2001 When Work Disappears: The World of the […]
Economy
Sources of Poverty in the US – Matthew Desmond article – Updated
Original posting – 3.6.2023 Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, has a new book Poverty, by America set to […]
Women’s Equal Pay Day – how to make it obsolete
Today, March 14, 2023 is Equal Pay Day “This date symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in […]
My Year End Siege of Angers – the addendum
Here are two more angers: (an addendum to the 1.1.2023 post: My Year End Siege of Angers – the list) Guns: “Eighteen percent of U.S. households […]
My Year End Siege of Angers – the list
Yesterday as I was taking a walk up and down Warren St. here in Hudson I realized that I had become actively angry about the […]
The Implosion of Southwest Airlines and Financialization
Southwest Airlines canceled thousands of flights representing more than 80%of all cancellations during the Christmas 2022 snowstorm. The scale of this service implosion led to […]
Capitalism – the actual workings – coming soon
The work to revise and expand my 2018 essay “Capitalism – a critique” has entered its final stages. A final draft has been distributed to […]
What’s Wrong With Inequality – the word?
Use of the word inequality hides the real issues.
Video Post: The Monopolization of the Economy and Zephyr Teachout’s “Break’Em Up”
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“How Structural Racism Works” – Tricia Rose and Samuel Rosen – recently noted
If you are struggling to get your head around how racism works you will probably find it helpful to have a general framework as a […]