The Death of Job Stability
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein works through “Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary” by Louis Hyman.
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein works through “Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary” by Louis Hyman.
Robin Kaiser-SchatzleinJan 2, 2019
LARB presents an excerpt from “As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon” by Daniel T. Rodgers.
Daniel T. RodgersNov 26, 2018
"How can the novel, and in particular the realist novel, deal with an event like the flash crash of 2010 or something like high-frequency trading?"
Mikkel Krause FrantzenNov 20, 2018
Philanthropy by the economic elite is undercut by their simultaneous efforts to deregulate the marketplace, a new book argues.
David TalbotNov 9, 2018
In "Hinterland," Phil A. Neel examines the deepening of wageless life, social despair, and the state’s decreasing capacity to manage increasing needs.
Sarah BrouilletteOct 27, 2018
In “Hollywood Math and Aftermath,” J. D. Connor is bold enough to take films at their word when they scream out loud that they’re made out of money.
Mark GobleOct 23, 2018
Anjali Vaidya reviews Naomi Klein's latest, "The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists."
Anjali VaidyaOct 3, 2018
How the neoliberal rhetoric of "choice" has made it harder to raise children.
Anat Shenker-OsorioSep 12, 2018
"White Fragility" reads as one-part jeremiad and one-part handbook. It is by turns mordant and then inspirational.
David RoedigerSep 6, 2018
In "Carceral Capitalism," Wang’s essays set up the abolition of the carceral state as one of the key moral battles of this century.
John W. W. ZeiserSep 3, 2018
Why does such a thinker as Ayn Rand persist in being taken seriously by otherwise smart people?
Scott TimbergJul 27, 2018
Justin Tyler Clark reads the funny, frightening "Live Work Work Work Die."
Justin Tyler ClarkJun 11, 2018
Most corporate jobs exist not to create anything meaningful but to go through expected rituals. And most people know this instinctually.
John SchneiderMay 31, 2018
M. Buna interviews Jackie Wang about her book, “Carceral Capitalism.”
M. BunaMay 13, 2018
On the cynical libertarianism of our high-tech Horatio Algers.
Daniel PearceMay 12, 2018
Nils Gilman offers a penetrating analysis of “Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World” by Samuel Moyn.
Nils GilmanMay 8, 2018
The platform confuses capital-flow and social form, rearranging the relationship of profit to community and intelligence to organization.
Leif WeatherbyApr 24, 2018
Daniel Zamora and Mitchell Dean draw parallels between Michel Foucault’s “History of Sexuality” and the rise of neoliberalism.
Mitchell Dean, Daniel ZamoraApr 18, 2018
Pranab Bardhan suggests a way forward for the global working class.
Pranab BardhanApr 9, 2018
On Jessica Bruder's "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century."
Justin Tyler ClarkApr 4, 2018
Girshriela Green felt a weight lift from her shoulders when she founded Respect the Bump, an advocacy group for pregnant Walmart workers.
Annelise Orleck, Liz CookeMar 30, 2018
Armond Towns and Carolyn Hardin considers Mehrsa Baradaran's recent book.
Armond Towns, Carolyn HardinMar 19, 2018
On Carl Cederström and André Spicer's "Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement" and the obsession with optimization in a neoliberal world.
Peter BloomMar 14, 2018
Can higher education be saved from the all-administrative university?
Ron SrigleyFeb 22, 2018