The Fight for Free Time
The demand for fewer working hours is about liberation — both individual and collective.
19089 Articles by: Frances Abele
Frances Abele CM is Distinguished Research Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy Emerita at Carleton University. She is a research fellow at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation and the Broadbent Institute. Much of her work focuses on indigenous-Canada relations.
When the Serfs Rebelled
In 1839, a small pocket of feudalism still existed in New York State. Then tenant farmers got organized.
“I’ve Got Your Back, and You’ve Got Mine”
Workers at the Los Angeles Times are unionizing not just to improve their working conditions but to ensure the future of the paper.
Against Conspiracy Theories
Forget JFK plots and 9/11 “truth.” What elites do out in the open gives us enough to be outraged about.
Information Is Power
How a group of researchers helped strengthen and scale up the anti–Vietnam War movement.
Horror Show
In the first season of Stranger Things, all possible futures are permeated by the Demogorgon of capital. What new terrors will season two bring?
Europe’s Next Left Government?
Katrín Jakobsdóttir, the leader of Iceland’s Left-Greens, discusses this weekend’s election and what will happen if they win.
Unity Is a One-Way Street
By purging Sanders backers from top positions, the DNC has shown what it means when it talks about “unity” and “compromise.”
It’s the Constitution, Stupid
The discourse of “norm erosion” has nothing to say about the very text that helped produce Donald Trump.
The Myth of the Switching Pain
Single-payer critics argue that removing people from employer-based plans would be a disaster. They’re wrong.
Steven Rattner, Kickback Hack
Meet the latest self-interested pundit urging Democrats not to move left.
Puerto Rico’s Not-So-Natural Disaster
The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico is a product of brutal austerity and inept leadership.
Who’s Afraid of Title IX?
The attacks on Title IX undermine the struggle against campus sexual assault.
The Other Side of Title IX
Laura Kipnis responds to Anne McClintock.
The Disruptors
Finance isn’t just an industry. It’s a system of social control.
Forty Years of the Firm
Trump’s entire mode of politics is drawn from his business background. And that’s why he’s floundering.
Capitalizing On Fear
El Salvador’s far right is using Trump’s war on migrants for political gain.
Austria’s Right Turn
With the two parties of the Right entering into a coalition government, Austrians can expect more neoliberalism and more xenophobia.
No to the Cane
On May 17, 1972, ten thousand British kids walked out of school to protest corporal punishment — and force authorities to change the law.
Yes, Bush Was That Bad
Can we please stop rehabilitating Republican ghouls?