Industrial productivity

The Spy Who Fired Me

By Esther Kaplan,

The human costs of workplace monitoring

The Digital Revolution That Wasn’t

By Jeff Madrick,

For as long as there have been machines, there have been worries about their power to destroy jobs. The Luddites — early-nineteenth-century artisans who bitterly resisted the new textile machinery…

Britain’s one way out

By C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan,

Industry’s untapped resources

By Henry Kraus,

How labor's co-operative committees can speed up production

The tyranny of incompetence

By Joseph H. Spigelman,

The profit drive slackens, business goes soft, and then what?

Error

By Harper’s Staff,

One hundred billion a year

By Roy Addison Helton,

Could we earn it? And do we want to?

Our capacity to produce

By Stuart Chase,