by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 02 November 2024 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/macroeconomics-meets-the-polycrisis/ Listen to the audio version >> The convergence of crises now often referred to as “the polycrisis” was heralded by the global economic crisis known as the Great Recession. Since then neither national nor global institutions have… Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 12 October 2024 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/great-power-struggle-over-fragmented-global-networks/ Listen to the audio version >> The global convergence of crises that has been dubbed the “polycrisis” has emerged in tandem with the decline of globalization. But what is replacing globalization is less a new system than… Read More »

by Don Wells, originally published 27 August 2003 online and in the Journal of Industrial Relations Volume 57, Number 3, Summer 2002, p. 585–587, accessible online here: https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ri/2002-v57-n3-ri546/006895ar/ Download Article Here

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 27 September 2024 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/what-ever-happened-to-globalization/ Listen to the audio version >> Globalization has been the hallmark of the economic world in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Since the Great Recession of 2008, however, globalization as we knew it has been… Read More »