Allan Lumba on Monetary Authorities in the American Colonial Philippines
In this episode, historian Allan Lumba explores how the United States wielded monetary authority in the colonial Philippines, including the role of money as a tool for countering decolonization, entre...
2 Feb 202338min
Chad Pearson on Klansmen, Employer Vigilantes, and Labor Suppression in the Long Nineteenth Century
This month's episode takes listeners back in time to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a time of significant labor unrest. At the time, employers, often with government support, went to great le...
5 Dec 202235min
Ghassan Moazzin on Foreign Banks and the Making of Modern China
This month's episode picks up on a theme previously explored on the podcast: international finance. Drawing on a broad range of German, English, Japanese, and Chinese sources, Ghassan Moazzin traces ...
3 Okt 202233min
Claire Dunning on Nonprofit Neighborhoods and Urban Inequality
In this month's episode, Claire Dunning explains how and why non-profits came to play such an important role in U.S. cities after World War II. In doing so, she explores the emergence of non-profit ne...
2 Aug 202249min
Mircea Raianu on Tata and Global Capitalism in India
In this episode, Mircea Raianu traces the rise of the Tata Group, one of India's largest and oldest companies, from its early days involved in cotton and opium trading to multinational conglomerate in...
7 Juli 202249min
Holger Droessler on Coconut Colonialism, Labor, and Globalization in Samoa
This month's episode centers Samoa, including the Pacific islands comprising the present-day independent country of Samoa and American Samoa, examining capitalism, globalization, and coconut coloniali...
27 Maj 202246min
Keith Wailoo on Racial Marketing and the Rise of Menthol Cigarettes
In 2020, George Floyd was killed by police outside a store in Minneapolis known as "the best place to buy menthols." Of Black Americans who smoke, eighty-percent smoke menthol cigarettes. In this epis...
5 Apr 202247min
Jason Resnikoff on the Automation Discourse and the Meaning of Work
This month's episode takes a deep dive into the history of work and automation in the post-World War II era. It traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-rangi...
7 Mars 202245min
