To the Corporate Media, Workers May as Well Not Exist
Working-class people are systematically left out of mainstream media coverage. So the stories we get are incomplete, skewed, or even complete distortions of reality.
3 Articles by: Ann Larson
Ann Larson is a contributor to the anthology Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World’s Richest Country, edited by Alissa Quart and David Wallis, published by Haymarket Books in collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
The Secret Anti-Socialist History of Supermarkets
Supermarkets are staples of our lives. But their emergence in America was far from automatic: the supermarket was used as a key piece of anti-communist propaganda early in the twentieth century against the alternative of grocery co-ops.
Higher Education Can Be Free
Oregon’s “Pay It Forward” plan is based on a neoliberal understanding of education as a commodity.