The Industrial Revolution was a turning point in human history, marking the shift from agrarian societies to industrialized ...

July 13, 2023 Child Labor in America Is Back—and It’s As Chilling as Ever It should be a reminder of how deeply retrogressive capitalism has once again become both here at home and elsewhere ...

CAPITALISM AND ITS CRITICS: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI | By John Cassidy | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | 609 pp. | $36 Jennifer Szalai is the nonfiction book critic for The Times.

Capitalism’s greatest challenge may come from elsewhere, however: Mr. Cassidy’s earlier chapters on the Industrial Revolution offer a grim warning that enormous advances in automation are not ...

Critics have always reminded us: Capitalism is a choice John Cassidy’s “Capitalism and Its Critics” is a rewarding guide to the many fascinating attempts throughout history to rethink or ...

In moments of crisis, it’s easy to think that capitalism is finished. But never forget the system’s formidable ability to ...

Instead, industrial capitalism delivered an unprecedented rise in living conditions and economic abundance for the masses.

Growing bipartisan support for industrial policy and the growing bipartisan indifference towards addressing the national debt are two major threats to the health of democratic capitalism in the ...

Attention now exists as a commodity in the same way labor did in the early years of industrial capitalism. What had previously been regarded as human effort was converted into a commodity with a ...

It is possible that the path to a high-growth, high-investment economy is blocked by political realities endemic to contemporary capitalism, which Biden’s industrial polices are unequipped to ...

Child labor might have shocked that outsider, but it was all too commonplace then across urban, industrial America (and on farms where it had been customary for centuries). In more recent times ...