The US automotive conglomerate posted big profits at the backend of 2020, however current international semiconductor shortages are threatening to slow down production.
David B. Feldman is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on capitalist globalization and migrant labor.
Mark Jay and Philip Conklin,
A People’s History of Detroit (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020), 320 pages, $26.95, paperback.
Four decades have passed since Howard Zinn published
A People’s History of the United States, retelling the history of the most powerful capitalist nation-state through the eyes of the downtrodden and oppressed. In its own peculiar way, Zinn’s text was something of an unintended rejoinder to Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign slogan: “Let’s Make America Great Again.” Organized labor and the powerful social movements of the 1960s and early ’70s found themselves on the back foot as factories shuttered across the industrial heartland and a pervasive sense of decline spread throughout much of the U.S. populace. If, on the one hand, Zinn rejected the notion that the Unite