Industry
The Fall of American Manufacturing and the Rise of Health Care
In an excerpt from his new book The Next Shift, University of Chicago historian Gabriel Winant explores how deindustrialization and the decline of the...
How Has the Covid-19 Crisis Affected Hourly Workers at Small Businesses?
Since the coronavirus crisis began, firms have dramatically reduced employee hours. By March 28, total hours declined over 70 percent in states with the...
Western Multinationals Can Improve Workers' Safety, If They Want to: The Case of Bangladesh
In 2013, one of the largest factories in Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1,134 workers. Many multinationals committed to improving safety standards. A new study shows...
Market Concentration, Regulation, and Europe´s Quest for a New Industrial Policy
Weakening competition policy in Europe risks creating monopolies rather than industrial champions.
An interventionist style of industrial policy, one that revolves around picking winners, has...
What Can We Learn from London’s Long Struggle with Air Pollution?
Research on the long-term effects of pollution on mortality has been held back by lack of historical pollution data. In a new working paper,...
