Labor

How automation threatens to eliminate the last constraint on elite power: human labor's negotiating leverage.

Exploring the global sand extraction crisis and its impacts on communities, ecosystems, and inequality—from artisanal miners to elite capture and hidden health costs.

An examination of how economic exploitation forms the foundation of colonialism, maintained through systematic deprivation of the colonized and artificial privilege of the colonizer.

Exploring how the pursuit of frictionless efficiency in logistics, labor, and governance creates societies that are optimized for performance but fragile under stress.

What your dinner plate reveals about markets, power, and the future of work. A series exploring how everyday foods expose the hidden forces shaping our economy—from the care economy to corporate power, from automation to trade wars.

Examining the claim that deregulated labor markets are better - why 'flexibility' often means insecurity for workers.

Debunking economic myths about immigration - examining the evidence on jobs, wages, and prosperity.

The mechanization of the home: how everyday appliances transformed labor, gender, and the meaning of comfort.