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  • Old Wine in New Bottles: Gender and the Gig Economy

    Old Wine in New Bottles: Gender and the Gig Economy

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    Ruth Milkman has published “Old wine in new bottles: gender and the gig economy” about her study (along with Luke Elliott-Negri, Kathleen Griesbach, and Adam Reich) of the platform-based food economy, which had an explosion in demand when COVID-19 hit. She found that the majority of the workers were white women, and describes the “class-gender

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  • How Does the Past Look from Here?

    How Does the Past Look from Here?

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    In “How Does the Past Look From Here? Notes from a historian” SLU faculty member Joshua Freeman compares today’s pandemic and politics to the events preceding and following the flu epidemic of 1918, and argues that this time, the yearning for a return to “normality” may be misplaced. Read it here in Moyers on Democracy.

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  • JEFFERY SUTTLES MAKES MUSIC FOR A MOVEMENT

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      Graduate student. Special education teacher. Digital humanities specialist. Writer. Poet. Musician. Indie artist. Those are only some of the myriad vocations of Jeffery Collin Suttles. To call him enterprising would be an understatement. A candidate for the M.A. in Urban Studies at SLU this semester, Jeffery found new inspiration for his art in a

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  • Social Security for All

    Social Security for All

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    By Deepak Bhargava and Mimi Abramovitz The economic crisis that accompanied the COVID pandemic pushed the safety net into the spotlight—and millions of Americans have found it threadbare. People seeking help for the first time are learning what poor and working-class people—mostly women and people of color—have long known: that in times of crisis, the

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