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    Labor power and wages after women’s labor market incorporation in Argentina

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on January 12, 2022 by Nicolás Aguila and Damián Kennedy (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Jan 13, 2022)

    In the past years, there has been a very much welcomed flourishing of Marxist Feminist analyses.

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    Opaque algorithms are creating an invisible cage for platform workers

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on December 9, 2021 by Hatim A. Rahman (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Dec 11, 2021)

    We live in a world run by algorithms. Nowhere is this more apparent than with platform companies, such as Facebook, Uber, Google, Amazon, and Twitter.

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    Neoliberalism and the crisis of higher education

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on October 27, 2021 by Beth Mintz (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Oct 29, 2021)

    Neoliberalism is the dominant ideology of this historical moment. It includes a belief in the following: the efficiency of the free market and the deregulation and privatization of the public sector that markets require; tax reduction; abandoning the welfare state; and replacing the notion of the public good with a personal responsibility for one’s own welfare.

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    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on September 29, 2021 by William Jefferies (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Oct 11, 2021)

    President Joe Biden is worried about China. In April he explained “we are in competition with China… to win the 21st century… we are at a great inflection point in history. We have to do more than just build back better… we have to compete more strenuously.”

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    The case of the vanishing boss

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on August 11, 2021 by Hanna Goldberg (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Aug 25, 2021)

    This article summarizes the manuscript, “The Two-Employer Problem: Strategic Dilemmas at the Heart of the Tipped Wage Debate,” a co-winner of the 2021 Albert Szymanski-T.R. Young/Critical Sociology Marxist Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award.

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    Statement of Support for Black Lives Matter and Defund the Police

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on June 12, 2020 (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Jun 15, 2020)

    Between 1963 and 1972, there were more than 750 Black-led urban revolts in the United States in 525 cities. How did sociologists react?

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    Limits of the Green New Deal

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on December 11, 2019 by John McCollum (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Dec 13, 2019)

    The Green New Deal is an exciting social program generating a great deal of interest on the left. Like its predecessor, the New Deal of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the GND holds out the promise of preventing the worst effects of anthropogenic climate change, and guaranteeing a better standard of living for its participants.

  • | Down with neoliberalism as a concept | MR Online

    Down with neoliberalism . . . as a concept

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on December 19, 2018 by Bill Dunn (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Dec 26, 2018)

    I think the left should stop talking about ‘neoliberalism’, as I argue in a recent journal article published in Capital & Class.

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    Green paradoxes: How climate change policy preserves climate change causes

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on November 26, 2018 by Ryan Gunderson, Diana Stuart & Brian Petersen (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Nov 29, 2018)

    Why are societies failing to effectively respond to climate change? Why is it that “environmental degradation increases amid the growth of environmental attention and concern,” as Alexander Stoner and Andony Melathopoulos put it?

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    I have 2 favourite sayings. One draws upon the dialogue in Shakespeare’s Henry the VI part 2 when Jack Cade envisions that the effect of his plot will be that “all the realm shall be in common.” To this, comrade Dick responds, “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

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    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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