Thomas Andrew Joyce (James Madison): A Nation of Employees: The Rise of White-Collar Workers and the Perceived Crisis of Masculinity in the 1950s. A review of Why Labor Organizing Should be a Civil Right by Richard D. Kahlenberg and Moshe Marvit. Republicans have accomplished what Democrats and unions never could: they’ve made the National Labor Relations Board a household name. Class warfare in the USA: Gordon Lafer on anti-unionism and the legislative agenda of the 1%. From Monthly Review, Michael Yates on the Great Inequality. From Boston Review, a forum on "what to do about inequality", including a lead essay by David B. Grusky: "If we’re serious about reducing inequality, we need to do more than raise taxes on the rich. We need to correct the market failures in labor and education that generate it"; and responses by Rick Perlstein; Mike Konczal; Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Stefanie Stantcheva; Barbara R. Bergmann; Anne L. Alstott; Glenn C. Loury; and more. Three decades of growing inequality and collapsing public morality have pitched America into crisis, imperilling its democracy — but there are precedents for a way out.
