The Third California: The Golden State's New Frontier

Documents the new movement of people and jobs to the interior region of the state, and discusses the broad implications of these changes for California as well as other Western states

Approaching the socialist factory and its workforce: considerations from fieldwork in (former) Yugoslavia

The socialist factory, as the ‘incubator’ of the new socialist (wo)man, is a productive entry point for the study of socialist modernization and its contradictions. By outlining some theoretical and methodological insights gathered through field-research in factories in former Yugoslavia, we seek to connect the state of labour history in the Balkans to recent breakthroughs made by labour historians of other socialist countries. The first part of this article sketches some of the specificities of the Yugoslav self-managed factory and its heterogeneous workforce. It presents the ambiguous relationship between workers and the factory and demonstrates the variety of life trajectories for workers in Yugoslav state-socialism (from model communists to alienated workers). The second part engages with the available sources for conducting research inside and outside the factory advocating an approach which combines factory and local archives, print media and oral history

The End of the Silicon Valley Dream: How the Home of Big Tech Lost Its Way

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is the latest indicator that the Valley – site of nothing less than an economic miracle in recent decades – is now in big trouble. Other signs include mass layoffs in the tech sector and a post-pandemic real estate downturn. The Valley, it seems, is entering a period of decadence that raises the prospect of long-term decline

7th Annual Demographia International housing affordability survey: 2011

Despite the bursting of the global housing bubble, the ratio of incomes to housing prices has shown a steady increase in many of the world\u27s cities, particularly in in Australia as this report notes. This international report rates housing affordability for metropolitan markets in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand United Kingdom, United States, China (Hong Kong) and others. In his introduction to the 7th edition, author Joel Kotkin cites markets such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, adding that: perhaps most remarkable has been the shift in Australia, once the exemplar of modestly priced, high quality middle class housing, to now the most unaffordable housing market... He disputes "progressives" who wrongly claim that dense urbanism is the preference of the next generation... He says this promotes a form of neo-feudalism which reverses the great social achievement of dispersing property ownership. &nbsp

The city : a global history

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Libraries and community

Joel Kotkin considers the critical role of libraries in economic success, from ancient times to the 21st century. He then looks at the opportunities provided by new technologies to disseminate information to those who are in danger of being \u27left behind\u27. Audio and transcripts available from this presentation at the \u27Library of the 21st Century Symposium\u27

Op-Ed: California’s Budget Surplus Has Vanished and Its Economy is in Danger. It Can Go One of Two Ways

The much-celebrated California boom is facing a harsh reality... But although there are dangers ahead, there’s no need to panic. This painful reality can be turned to our advantage and help us pivot our economy toward greater economic diversity and opportunity for most Californians, particularly ethnic minorities