The Politics of Debt in America: From Debtor’s Prison to Debtor Nation
Crossposted from TomDispatch. This essay will also appear in the next issue of Jacobin Shakespeare’s Polonius offered this classic advice to his son: “neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Many of our nation’s Founding Fathers emphatically saw it otherwise. They often lived by the maxim: always a borrower, never a ...
The Archeology of Decline: Debtpocalypse and the Hollowing Out of America
Crossposted from TomDispatch“Debtpocalypse” looms. Depending on who wins out in Washington, we’re told, we will either free fall over the fiscal cliff or take a terrifying slide to the pit at the bottom. Grim as these scenarios might seem, there is something confected about the mise-en-scène, like an un-fun Playland. ...
Written by Steve Fraser and Joshua B. FreemanSweatshop labor is back with a vengeance. It can be found across broad stretches of the American economy and around the world. Penitentiaries have become a niche market for such work. The privatization of prisons in recent years has meant the creation of ...
Crossposted from TomDispatchIn 1729, when Ireland had fallen into a state of utter destitution at the hands of its British landlords, Jonathan Swift published a famous essay, “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for ...
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January 29th, 2013
The Politics of Debt in America: From Debtor’s Prison to Debtor Nation
Crossposted from TomDispatch. This essay will also appear in the next issue of Jacobin Shakespeare’s Polonius offered this classic advice to his son: “neither a borrower ...
December 3rd, 2012
The Archeology of Decline: Debtpocalypse and the Hollowing Out of America
Crossposted from TomDispatch“Debtpocalypse” looms. Depending on who wins out in Washington, we’re told, we will either free fall over the fiscal cliff or take a ...
April 20th, 2012
Written by Steve Fraser and Joshua B. FreemanSweatshop labor is back with a vengeance. It can be found across broad stretches of the American economy ...
December 1st, 2011
Crossposted from TomDispatchIn 1729, when Ireland had fallen into a state of utter destitution at the hands of its British landlords, Jonathan Swift published a ...
January 29th, 2013
The Politics of Debt in America: From Debtor’s Prison to Debtor Nation
Crossposted from TomDispatch. This essay will also appear in the next issue of Jacobin Shakespeare’s Polonius offered this classic advice to his son: “neither a borrower ...
December 3rd, 2012
The Archeology of Decline: Debtpocalypse and the Hollowing Out of America
Crossposted from TomDispatch“Debtpocalypse” looms. Depending on who wins out in Washington, we’re told, we will either free fall over the fiscal cliff or take a ...
April 20th, 2012
Written by Steve Fraser and Joshua B. FreemanSweatshop labor is back with a vengeance. It can be found across broad stretches of the American economy ...
December 1st, 2011
Crossposted from TomDispatchIn 1729, when Ireland had fallen into a state of utter destitution at the hands of its British landlords, Jonathan Swift published a ...
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