Are you aware that there has been a dramatic expansion of the U.S. financial “industry” over the last twenty-five years? Did you know that the financial sector crashed four years ago, spreading devastation to almost every corner of the globe due to its “complex instruments?” Are you troubled by the way the U.S.’s infrastructure crumbled, [...]
At a time when much of the left in the U.S. is absorbed in arguing for a Keynesian jobs program, Women’s Studies professor Kathi Weeks challenges the whole concept of work in her new book, “The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries .” According to the publisher, Duke University Press, “Kathi Weeks [...]
Even more than the repression of Occupy encampments across the United States in the fall, the defeat of the effort to recall Wisconsin governor Scott Walker represents a disheartening denouement to the movements of 2011. It is hard to see just what the Occupy movement could do in the short term in the face of [...]
Arlie Hochschild, a sociologist at Berkeley most famous for “Managed Heart,” explores the endless expansion of services available through the marketplace in her new book, “The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times.” These services include not only wedding planners and surrogate mothers, but “nameologists” who can help you name a new family member, and [...]
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