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Articles in Class & Inequality tagged with History

David Waldstreicher

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

Jodi Dean, Charisse Burden-Stelly

And what today’s organizers can learn from them.

Jonathan Kirshner

In his new book, the former Fed chair cuts through economic orthodoxy on central banking. But he fails to reckon deeply with its political consequences.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?

Jamie Martin

To escape the imperial legacies of the IMF and World Bank, we need a radical new vision for global economic governance.

Mie Inouye

How a new class of "salts"—radicals who take jobs to help unionization—is boosting the organizing efforts of long-term workers.

Robert Manduca, Nic Johnson

As the neoliberal order unravels, the international economic system can and must make room for cooperative forms of state-driven development.

Max Haiven
With the invasion causing a global shortage of sunflower oil, palm oil is back on the rise. But the commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.
Robin D. G. Kelley
While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.
Emily Callaci

Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril.

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