Link to an interview with Sole by Brendan McQuade:
“‘Artists are Part of the Working Class’: An Interview with Sole”
Bonus link: Solecast 21
Tag: Economics
Wolfgang Streeck – Social Democracy’s Last Rounds
Link to an interview with Wolfgang Streeck conducted by Jonah Birch and George Souvlis:
“Social Democracy’s Last Rounds”
Streeck’s comments about inflation might be questionable.
Peter Van Buren – Nickel and Dimed in 2016
Link to an article by Peter Van Buren:
Ben Terrall – Raw Deals: Challenging the Sharing Economy
Link to reviews by Ben Terrall of the books What’s Yours is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy (2016) by Tom Slee and Raw Deal: How the “Uber Economy” and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers (2015) by Steven Hill:
“Raw Deals: Challenging the Sharing Economy”
Bonus link: “Spam & What’s Yours Is Mine, Book Reviews: The Loss of Internet Innocence”
Herbert Deyer, Jr. – The First Demand for Slave Reparations
Link to an article by Herbert Deyer, Jr.:
“The First Demand for Slave Reparations”
Bonus Link: “Statement to the Media by the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, on the Conclusion of Its Official Visit to USA, 19-29 January 2016” (“The colonial history, the legacy of enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism, and racial inequality in the US remains a serious challenge as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent.“)
Aviva Chomsky – All the News That’s Fit to Print
Link to an article by Aviva Chomsky:
“All the News That’s Fit to Print: How the Media Hide Undocumented Workers”
Bonus links: “What Pierre Bourdieu Taught Me” and “Should Journalists Care If Sources Go Off to Prison?”
Review of Social Class in the 21st Century
Link to Anna’s review of Social Class in the 21st Century (2015) by Mike Savage:
“Social Class in the 21st Century“
Online copy of the Introduction to the book:
“The Great British Class Survey and the Return of Class Today”
John Patrick Leary – Flint’s Bottom Line
Link to an article by John Patrick Leary:
Bonus links: “Flint: A Tale of Two Cities” and “A Pediatrician General Motors and the Flint Water Crisis” and “The Poisoning of Flint”
Tony Bates – Book Review: The Future of the Professions
Link to a review by Tony Bates of The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts (2015) by Richard and Daniel Susskind:
“Book Review: The Future of the Professions (Including Teaching)”
Bonus links: Forces of Production and “Edutopia” and Homo academicus and Making Money
Walden Bello – Why Wall Street Won Round One and We Might Win the Next
Link to an article by Walden Bello: