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Capitalism: The Insatiable Machine with Trevor Jackson
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventBook Event or PanelJoin us for a conversation with Trevor Jackson on his book 'The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World.' Full of memorable characters and lively vignettes as well as sweeping quantitative analysis and historical synthesis, The Insatiable Machine makes clear that capitalism is neither a natural, permanent, nor inevitable feature of human life but rather an economic system that has a history. And just as it was made by people, it can also be unmade by them.
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Highlights of Capital Volume III: The Automatic Fetish
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupA weekly study group on Marx's Capital, Volume III, based on Beverley Best's 'The Automatic Fetish.' Marx's work integrates and completes his analysis of capital, enabling us to understand and make sense of how the phenomena we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the underlying system.
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‘Beneath the Wage’ with Annie McClanahan
Online Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventBook Event or PanelA conversation with author Annie McClanahan on 'Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work.' Today, 80 percent of U.S. workers do service work, from delivering takeout to mopping floors to teaching. Do these jobs have anything in common? Who is doing this work? And what kind of labor politics does it generate?
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