Last week, on September 2, radical anthropologist and Occupy Wall Street organizer David Graeber passed away at a hospital in Venice at the age of 59. In their obituary, the New York Times called him a "caustic critic of inequality." Today we remember David by re-airing our Labor Day interview with

Alice Martin, Carys Roberts, Aidan Harper, Will Stronge, Katja Kipping, David Graeber Session organised by: 4 Day Week Campaign, Autonomy, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Berlin The demand for a reduction of work is as old as the Labour movement itself. Generations of trade unionists and socialists knew th

Welcome to LSE IQ, a new monthly podcast from the London School of Economics and Political Science. This is the podcast where we ask some of the leading social scientists - and other experts - to answer intelligent questions about economics, politics or society. In this episode Sue Windebank asks

Speaker(s): Professor David Graeber | The proliferation of useless forms of employment in the professional-managerial sector has placed enormous pressure on the caring professions, leading to a major social conflagration. David Graeber (@davidgraeber) is Professor of Anthropology at the LSE and auth

Currencies are telling of our current time. Debt, labor, commodification, ownership, and consumerism structure and characterize contemporary life and academia. From the monetization and protection of intellectual property to the debts that students accrue, from the exploitation of adjunct labor to t