Someone mentioned this thread in comments yesterday and it's worth a full post. It's a compendium of newspaper reports of capitalists claiming workers just don't want to work that goes.
For the latest LGM podcast, I interviewed Michael Hillard, an economist at the University of Southern Maine, about his new book, Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty.
Louis Hyman is an excellent historian of capitalism, who wrote this book on temporary work, among other books. His op-ed today reminds us that while we focus on the New.
This is a very long but pretty complete history of the "self-made man," one of the most pernicious myths in American history. The true bard of this was the child.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's 2015 book, The Mushroom at the End of the World, is simply one of the best academic works I have read in years. Tsing examines the matsutake.
Walter Johnson is one of our premier historians, period. His work on slavery and capitalism has helped reorient a narrative that for way, way too long argued that slavery was.
An interesting argument, but I think it screams of choosing the evidence to make the conclusion it wants to make: While Naím argues that what is happening is an end.
Scenes on a Cotton Plantation: Hoeing, engraving from Harper’s Weekly, February 2, 1867 Sven Beckert's Bancroft Prize-winning book is a brilliant as advertised. He explores the history of cotton production.
