Log drivers once steered loose timber on rivers across America before railroad expansion put such shepherds out of work.

Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, and the international ice industry was a booming business. Then refrigeration came along.

The major transformation in the where of modern workplaces is about to collide with a transformation in who is doing that work.

Vacations in the Soviet Union were hardly idylls spent with one’s dearest. Everything about them—from whom you traveled with to what you ate—was state determined.

She designed Social Security and public works programs that helped bring millions out of poverty. Her work has been largely forgotten.

Thanks to the miracle of contemporary connectivity, I can be here, in one place physically, another place mentally, still others visually or financially.

The "gig economy" benefits startups and tech companies, but it may be unsustainable, and unethical for the economy, and workers, at large.

If computers endanger the hard-won gains of the labor movement, do we need a new way of addressing tech-driven income inequality?

If you want to get some perspective how much quantitative research has changed in the past few decades, try going back to 1990.