Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
Link to a labor rights report:
“ITUC Global Rights Index 2017: Violence and Repression of Workers on the Rise”
Link to an article by Russell Mokhiber:
“DC Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton Fox Won’t Let Whistleblower Lawyer Lynne Bernabei Go”
Link to an article by Cliff Weathers:
“Your HR Department Hates You: How Corporate Overseers Exploit Workers”
Link to an article by Anatoly Shtyrbul:
“The Autonomous Industrial Colony ‘Kuzbass'”
Bonus links: Project Kuzbas: American Workers in Siberia, “Descendants of Dutch Colonists Visit OAO Koks,” “From Stalingrad to Kuzbas: Sketches of the Socialist Construction in the USSR,” “The American Industrial Colony in Kuzbass in the Years of 1922–1927,” “Capitalist Restoration in Russia: A Balance Sheet (Part 1)”
Link to an article by Fredrik deBoer:
Link to an article by Simon Davis-Cohen:
“Corporate America is Inching Even Closer to a Constitutional Convention”
Link to an article by Martha Rosenberg:
“They Aren’t All Safe: Pharma is Willing to Look ‘Unscientific’ to Sell Vaccines”
Bonus links: “The Vaccination Quandary” (Note: he’s actually referring to Sherri Tenpenny, not Shirley Tenpenny.) and “FDA Commissioner Hamburg Appointed WHO Deputy?: A Sad Legacy” and “Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA” and “Public Interest Group Calls for Investigation Into Harassment of USDA Scientists” and “Suppressing Scientific Discourse on Vaccines? Self-Perceptions of Researchers and Practitioners”
Link to a review by Angelia R. Wilson of the book Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs (2015), by Lauren A. Rivera:
“Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs, by Lauren A. Rivera”
Bonus links: “Social Class in the 21st Century” and “Class Position and Musical Tastes”
Link to an article by Michael Hudson, excerpted from the book Absentee Ownership and its Discontents: Critical Essays on the legacy of Thorstein Veblen (2016):
“The Return of the Repressed Critique of Rentiers: Veblen in the 21st Century Rentier Capitalism”
Bonus link: “The Legacy of Veblen in the Age of Post-Industrial Capitalism”