The Federal Reserve routinely uses monetary policy tools such as interest rates as a signal to stimulate employment (price stability is another goal) — but the outcomes depend on power battles in ...

Wide swaths of American workers are more meaningfully involved than in the past in organizing around and pushing back against artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven technologies in the workplace ...

This is a paper by Glenn Rikowski which he gave at the Historical Materialism London Conference, SOAS, 2024. Following a brief outline of labour-power through Marx, Ciccarelli (2021) and Rikowski's ...

Marx makes the transition from the sphere of circulation to the sphere of production by deducing that the origin of surplus-value lies within the realization of the use-value of labor-power. In the ...

Big Oil is taking a tougher stance in labor negotiations, with BP and Marathon using refinery lockouts to push for concessions from unionized workers. Refineries are continuing to operate with ...