May/June 2021

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

How Federal Reserve policies, the recession they triggered, and broader political and economic changes weakened workers’ power and helped usher in an era of extreme inequality.

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

A string of primary victories by DSA-backed candidates and other progressives—from New York to Michigan to Florida—is giving the Democratic left new leverage while putting its ambitious economic agenda back at the center of the party’s debate.

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?

The Political Economy of Palestine

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

May/June 2021

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars