How China Avoided a Soviet-Style Collapse
What have three decades of market reforms meant for the world’s largest working class?
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Dentists of the World, Unite?
The middle class isn’t going away — and we’re not sure they’ll help us.
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropist
Robert Tressell was a great writer whose class position meant he died without knowing the appreciation of his work.
The Return of the Company Town
The Second Gilded Age is starting to look more and more like the first.
The Problem Isn’t Classism, It’s Class
Under capitalism, prejudice against workers is common. But it only adds insult to a deeper, more profound injury.
Workers Didn’t Bring Us Fascism
From Berlin to the Ruhr, the organized working class resisted Hitler’s reactionary appeals.
White-Collar Media
For most of the news media, the life and struggles of the majority class just aren’t newsworthy.
We Built the Golden Age
The culture of British trade union militancy in auto plants like Austin Longbridge wasn’t the “natural” result of a Golden Age of capitalism — it came from organizing.
Lifestyle Environmentalism Will Never Win Over Workers
And those are exactly the people we need to save the planet.
Disorganized Democracy
A coalition of industrial workers and small farmers underpinned democratic politics in the twentieth century. Can workers in a precarious service economy fill their shoes today?
What Is a “Proletarian” Anyway?
With the rise of industrial capitalism and the workers’ movement it created, we created new words to explain a confounding new world.