Short Shifted: Labor Power & Workplace Scheduling
Have you ever been sent home early from work? Have you ever worked a job where you both closed and then opened? In this post, Stephanie Medley-Rath explains how these labor practices illustrate Marx’s...
View ArticleWhat Does it Mean to “Get Ahead” in Life?
In this piece, Nathan Palmer asks us to think about what we really mean when we ask, “what are my chances of getting ahead in life?” What are my chances of getting ahead? That’s a question we all ask...
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Mom, Dad, & Uncle Sam Want YOU To Be An Engineer
The push for students to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics is growing rapidly. In this piece, Mediha Din describes what this nation-wide educational focus means for...
View ArticleThe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Social Construction of Cosmetically...
Have you ever bought a potato that looked like Abraham Lincoln’s face, an eggplant that had arms to hug you with, or an orange with a strange growth? Why is it that in America, we pass over “ugly”...
View ArticleMy Automated Life
Automation, or the use of computers, robots, and machines, is efficient and presumably saves us time and mental energy. But automation still requires human involvement. In this post, Stephanie...
View ArticleIs Having a Baby Like Buying a Rolex? Economic Values & Children as Luxury...
In this piece John Kincaid explores how our profane capitalist economic values have seeped into aspects of our life we hold sacred. Specifically, he asks us to think about how modern capitalism in the...
View ArticleAs Marijuana Becomes Legal, The Legacy of Structural Racism Still Haunts Many
In this essay, Beverly Yuen Thompson describes the structural racism created by the War on Drugs era and shows how the racial inequality it created may continue to disproportionately oppress people of...
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Why Smoking Makes you Free
In this essay, John Kincaid uses symbolic interaction and cigarette advertisements from the early 1900s to illustrate how symbols are used to shape and reshape society. One of the things that we work...
View ArticleEviction and the American Dream
Evictions have become a common occurrence in the past 10 years. In this post, Stephanie Medley-Rath discusses Matthew Desmond’s book about evictions and her own experience with informal eviction. I...
View ArticleEven an Uber-Bad CEO Isn’t Responsible For All of a Company’s Problems
In this piece, Nathan Palmer argues that the resignation of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick will likely not solve the companies systemic and complex problems. Last week, Travis Kalanick, the controversial CEO...
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