May/June 2021

Retirement Savings in the Dark

For most of the 20th century, there was a clear wall between working people’s pension funds and the riskier corners of financial markets. This wasn’t accidental—it was the law.

The Shrinking Cushion of Unpaid Care

Many feminists urge a transition toward a dual-earner/dual-carer system in which women and men alike earn money and provide unpaid care for their families and communities. But is this possible in the current economic system?

Behind the Virtuous Façade

Mateo Crossa and James M. Cypher

The USMCA’s Rerstructuring of Mexico’s Labor Relations | Read more »
In the Drivers’ Seat

Luis Feliz Leon

Can a cooperative in New York City point the way for reining in Big Tech? | Read more »
India’s Farmers’ Protests

Sirisha Naidu

What’s behind one of the largest protests in history? | Read more »
Can the Decline of Unions Be Reversed?

Arthur Macewan

Dear Dr. Dollar: Am I right to be pessimistic about significant reductions of inequality, at least through the impact of unions? | Read more »

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Undervaluation Is a Certainty

An Interview with Michelle Holder

Measuring Black Women’s Wage Gap

the regulars

editors’ note Labor, the Democrats, and Austerity
the short run
cartoon
up against the wall street journal Getting Up to Speed on the Minimum Wage
in review Jon Shefner and Cory Bland, Why Austerity Persists; Diane Perrons, Is Austerity Gendered?

Retirement Savings in the Dark

Interview: The Economics of Trump's War on Iran

The Shrinking Cushion of Unpaid Care

May/June 2021

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars