Rachel Gross on How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America
In 2022 and 2023, an estimated 50 million Americans went camping. Many others participated in outdoor recreation activities ranging from mountain-climbing to sailing. According to the U.S. Department ...
2 Syys 202441min
Margot Canaday on Queer Workers in Modern America
In today's episode, Margot Canaday reveals the not-so-hidden history of LGBT workers in modern America. In the absence of state protections, she finds, some employers actually appreciated queer worker...
1 Elo 202451min
Elizabeth Ingleson on the Past and Present of Made in China
Today, China is the U.S. third largest trading partner and second-largest source of imports. This wasn't always the case. Indeed, in the 1970s, when the United States first began trading with communi...
1 Heinä 202449min
Teresa Ghilarducci on the Past and Future of Retirement
When we study capitalism, we usually focus on the active time in people's lives: the moments where things like work, consumption, production, trade, accumulation, and exchange all happen. But Teresa G...
3 Kesä 202444min
Cheryl Narumi Naruse on Singapore, Postcolonial Capitalism, and Becoming Global Asia
In this month's episode, co-host Jessica Levy and guest Cheryl Narumi Naruse examine popular narratives surrounding Singapore's "miraculous" journey from Third to First world nation, currently ranked ...
5 Touko 202431min
Ben Waterhouse on the Dream and Reality of Self Employment
One recent study found that 81% of businesses in the United States have zero employees. That is, they are run by sole proprietors, working for and by themselves, The ideal of self-employment has becom...
2 Huhti 202439min
Brent Cebul on Business, Inequality, and American Liberalism
Most scholars would date the origins of neoliberalism to the 1970s, when a range of crises gave rise to new forms of market-oriented governance. But Brent Cebul, our guest on this month's episode, arg...
5 Maalis 202445min
Tim Keogh on Suburban Poverty and the Roots of Postwar Inequality
In 2022, roughly one in 10 suburban residents lived in poverty (9.6%), compared to about one in six in primary cities (16.2%), according to a recent study by the Brookings Institute. The issue of subu...
6 Helmi 202446min
