Living on Credit: Student Debt in the U.S. History of Knowledge
Presents insights on student debt from the author’s book, Leben auf Kredit, which examines various forms of precarious debt in the US from the end of slavery to the present.
Tagged: social inequality
The Politics of Measurement: Knowledge about Economic Inequality in the United Kingdom and Beyond since 1945
If you had a conversation about the growing gap between rich and poor almost anywhere in today’s world, you would very likely refer to “the top one percent,” a phrase that evokes the skyrocketing...
Mind the Gap: Cultural Cleavage and the Idea of the ‘Common People’
A specter is haunting the current political discourse, the specter of cultural cleavage. More and more observers see the emergence of a socio-cultural gap between a hegemonic, globalist, educated class and an underrepresented, locally...
Sources: Child Labor in the United States
On this May Day, it is interesting to read a Progressive Era speech by Florence Kelley from December 1905 entitled “The Federal Government and the Working Children.” 1 Kelley was arguing for a federal solution...
