Jun 26, 202149 minOn the inhumanity of Illinois's government in the 1930sIn case anyone is interested in the history of the Great Depression, particularly in Chicago, here's an excerpt from a chapter of my...
Jun 10, 202122 minIntroduction to my forthcoming bookIf all goes well, I'll be publishing a book sometime in the not-too-distant future. It'll be called something like Popular Radicalism and...
Sep 4, 202035 minThe Workers' BillHere's the last section of chapter 6 of my dissertation on the unemployed in Chicago during the Depression. The previous two sections are...
Sep 3, 202054 minOn the Unemployed Councils and the Chicago Workers' CommitteeThe last chapter of my dissertation on the unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression is, I think, more interesting than the...
Aug 23, 202025 minThe radical dimensions of mass consciousness, part 2Here's the sequel to this post, from the last chapter of my Ph.D. thesis. It's just an excerpt. The main point of it is to argue against...
Aug 21, 202053 minHomeless men in the Great DepressionHere's another over-long blog post. It's a chapter from my dissertation, on homeless men during the Great Depression. I'm not sure it's...
Jun 16, 20202 minPrimary sources on Communists and the unemployed during the Great DepressionWhile writing my PhD dissertation a few years ago ("Down But Not Out: The Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression"), I...
Jun 13, 20206 minGender norms in a Chilean copper mine[This was supposed to be a short outline for a student presentation I had to give. So excuse the roughness. Here are more book reviews.]...
Nov 17, 20161 minA Marxist history of World War III recently read a book by Chris Bambery called The Second World War: A Marxist History (2014) and decided it was good enough to take...
Feb 22, 20152 minThe coming great depressionThe following is a resolution proposed at a Chicago conference of the Communist Party’s Unemployed Councils in 1930, in the context of...