More workers are forming independent unions, untethered from the AFL-CIO and other established labor groups. The year 2022 saw a significant increase…
Michael D. Yates
In the last years of his life, my father spent many days in intensive care. He had emphysema, the product of too…
“Bud is examining airplane windshields destined for the F111 fighter jet. It is the late 1960s, and he has been working for…
There must be a relationship of mutual respect between teacher and student and a sense that both are part of a larger project, the liberation of humanity from the shackles of capitalism
The U.S. working-class was slow to respond to the hard times it faced during and after the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Finally,…
The Occupy Wall Street uprising has taken the nation by storm, beginning in the Financial District in Manhattan and then spreading to…
A recent New York Times article (‘Rural Swath of Big State Tests Obama,’ August 21, 2008) described life in the dead…
[This is an excerpt from Associate Editor Michael D. Yates’ new book, Cheap Motels and a Hotplate: An Economist’s Travelogue, available from…
I do not think that many faculty members would challenge the notion that their universities are run by people who are primarily…