Tag Archives: class
Intervention – ‘Doing the Right Thing in Detroit’ by Andy Merrifield
“Neutrality isn’t cool” — Justin Ravitz, Marxist Judge of Detroit Recorder’s Court, 1980 A little while ago, I participated in an evening of revolutionary politics at the Roxy Bar and … Continue reading
Review essay – ‘Recuperating Commodity Studies for a Marxist Political Economy: Possibilities and Limitations’
by Marion Werner, University at Buffalo, SUNY Ben Selwyn, Workers, State and Development in Brazil: Powers of Labour, Chains of Value. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-7190-8531-4 (cloth), ISBN … Continue reading
Intervention – Towards a Multi-dimensional Concept of Forced Labour
by Siobhan McGrath, Lancaster University The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has recently updated its estimate of the number of people worldwide in forced labour. The new estimate is dramatically higher … Continue reading
Sewers and Sewerage Workers in India
by Lalit Batra, University of Minnesota In her much-publicized address to the joint session of the parliament the President of India, Pratibha Patil, recently declared her government’s intention to introduce … Continue reading
Virtual issue – ‘Boys Town Redux: a supplement’
Our colleagues over at Environment and Planning D: Society and Space recently published a virtual issue entitled ‘Boys town redux’. The title comes from a Society and Space essay published … Continue reading
Yo: are we (still) racist?
by Rachel Brahinsky, UC Berkeley When I teach classes about race and geography, I often use the civil rights movement to start a conversation about the ways in which racial … Continue reading
Cops and the 99%, Part II: Cops, scabs, and the 99%
by Jesse Goldstein, City University of New York As promised, here’s my follow-up, a somewhat more opinionated take on the relationship between cops and the 99%. Scabs are paid to … Continue reading
Police, protest, and spaces of power
by Rachel Brahinsky, University of California Berkeley In this season of global occupations, the geographies of police violence have been on my mind. As we begin to unveil this new … Continue reading
Building a new labor movement in the shell of the old…: The IWW campaigns to organize fast food workers
by Nathan Clough, University of Minnesota Duluth “The working class and the employing class have nothing in common […] Instead of the conservative motto, ‘A fair day’s wage for a … Continue reading
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