Earlier today, I put up a complete dataset of strike activity in the United States from 1976 to the present. It has already been making the twitter rounds interestingly enough, but here I want to comment on it with a focus on how it is unique and useful. First, how does it work? Going all… Continue reading Labor Strike Dataset
Author: Matt Bruenig
Neat labor strike data from the CPS
As I mentioned in a prior post, I am going to be playing around with monthly Current Population Survey microdata to produce some datasets of interest to me. Today I decided to look into what percent of the employed adult civilian population answered that they were absent from work due to a labor dispute. The… Continue reading Neat labor strike data from the CPS
Problems with a left moral and political narrative
A leftist project in the United States needs to both be technically sound and politically persuasive. As Bhaskar Sunkara has often pointed out, the left right now is much too obsessed with the technical “wonky” side of the project. As a result, the moral and political arguments get neglected, and conservative moral and political narratives… Continue reading Problems with a left moral and political narrative
Introducing Datasets Project — First Up, Disability
Partly to better familiarize myself with the Current Population Survey and partly because I have a hard time finding certain important information, I have started a Datasets Project. I will track certain social statistics on an ongoing basis and update the datasets as the new numbers come in. For now, all of the datasets will… Continue reading Introducing Datasets Project — First Up, Disability
John Quiggin criticizes socializing finance
John Quiggin of Crooked Timber fame has a post on the Jacobin website today critiquing a recent article on socializing finance by Seth Ackerman. After Ackerman’s piece was published, I wrote two sympathetic posts (I, II) about the idea of socializing finance. Quiggin is skeptical. In his response, Quiggin does not appear to take exception… Continue reading John Quiggin criticizes socializing finance