Precarious Work and Contemporary Capitalism

Precarious Work and Contemporary Capitalism

Jonathan White There is understandably a lot of public discussion around the issue of what’s increasingly called precarious work. For some, this is evidence of the emergence of something qualitatively new in our economy. A fundamental shift has happened, the argument goes, toward a ‘gig economy’ in which a whole set of assumptions about the…

We are Not Fooled by the Hong Kong Protests

We are Not Fooled by the Hong Kong Protests

Several people around the world are confused about the protests going on in Hong Kong. Whenever the corporate media and politicians, especially people like Marco Rubio (US Republican senator), applaud a social movement, it is a red flag that the protests are not a progressive people’s movement, but serve other purposes. Is this really a…