Household labor refers to things like cooking dinner, cleaning the floor, doing laundry, and so on. Historically, it has generated all sorts of gendered oppression. Volumes and volumes have been written on the gendered issues involved in household labor; so I wont expound further here. Instead, I want to bracket the gendered stuff and talk… Continue reading Household labor: the least alienating of all
Author: Matt Bruenig
Implementing socialism
I think that figuring out how to implement a functioning socialist system is an indispensable part of advocating for such a system for two reasons. First, it is hard to know whether you actually want a system if you can’t even understand what that system will actually look like. Additionally, the maxim that “ought implies… Continue reading Implementing socialism
Policy Shop: New Evidence of How Declining Union Power Has Hurt Worker Wages
New post at policy shop. Excerpt: A compelling new study out in the American Sociological Review pins the cause quite convincingly on the erosion of union power in the face of computerization. Tali Kristal, the author of the study, looks beyond the overall declining share of labor income and into specific sectors of the economy… Continue reading Policy Shop: New Evidence of How Declining Union Power Has Hurt Worker Wages
Policy Shop: Free Higher Education and the Zero Illusion
New post at Policy Shop. Excerpt: The debates about free higher education are fertile ground for the operation of the zero illusion. Mike Konczal, for instance, has long been pushing the idea that free public higher education is a goal worth striving for because a free public option would drive down tuition in other institutions… Continue reading Policy Shop: Free Higher Education and the Zero Illusion
Policy Shop: Why So-Called Consumption Inequality Misses the Point
New post at policy shop. Excerpt: So the consumption metric is a ridiculous distraction. Not only does it turn out that consumption inequality has mirrored income inequality over the last few decades, but the focus also misses so many of the things that income is about. Of course, the conservatives who bring it up do… Continue reading Policy Shop: Why So-Called Consumption Inequality Misses the Point