Class & Inequality

The tangled legacy of the Swedish experiment.

How accounting protocols undermine public goals—from decolonization to climate action.

Dismantling it requires getting the story right.

Lessons from the new alliances between labor and climate activism.

New local labor laws aim to end worker exploitation. Can bureaucrats serve that vision?

The state structures society. It can make us more prone to care for one another.

An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, thirty years after apartheid’s end.

The Israel-India worker deal resembles British indenture.

Is there anything left to anti-imperial visions of global commerce?

Biden’s industrial policy program promises a massive shift from decades of neoliberal orthodoxy. Can it deliver inclusive gains in time?

The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

Janice Fine explains how “co-enforcement”—a bold new model for upholding labor law—is linking the state to social movements.

Mie Inouye and Daniel Martinez HoSang discuss the challenges of organizing in a society that tears groups apart.

A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.

Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.

The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.

Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.

How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality.

The late South African intellectual and activist—imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela—fought for a world without race and class.

The anti-regulatory ethos of libertarian economics has dire consequences.