Simon Head

Simon Head is a Senior Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford. His most recent book is The New Ruthless Economy: Work and Power in the Digital Age. (August 2007)

From the Review

August 16, 2007: They're Micromanaging Your Every Move

The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid

Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich

The Culture of the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett

April 28, 2005: Working for Wal-Mart: An Exchange

December 16, 2004: Inside the Leviathan

Wal-Mart: Template for 21st Century Capitalism? edited by Nelson Lichtenstein

US Productivity Growth, 1995–2000, Section VI: Retail Trade a report by the McKinsey Global Institute

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart by Liza Featherstone

Everyday Low Wages: The Hidden Price We All Pay for Wal-Mart a report by the Democratic Staff of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce

Betty Dukes, Patricia Surgeson, Cleo Page et al., Plaintiff, vs. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Defendant: Declarations in Support of Plaintiffs

February 29, 1996: The New, Ruthless Economy

January 17, 1991: The East German Disaster

Das Deutsche Wagnis by Klaus von Dohnanyi

May 18, 1989: The Battle Inside NATO

June 10, 1982: Brezhnev and After (letter)

March 4, 1982: Brezhnev and After

July 18, 1974: The Kurdish Tragedy

March 21, 1974: The Monarchs of the Persian Gulf

August 9, 1973: Story Without End

For Reasons of State by Noam Chomsky

Critical Essays and an Index to Vols. 1-4 of the Senator Gravel Edition of the Pentagon Papers edited by Noam Chomsky, edited by Howard Zinn