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David Huyssen
@davidhuyssen
Historian/teacher/editor. Author PROGRESSIVE INEQUALITY. US history, class, labor, NYC, US/UK life & political economy.
Dec 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
UPDATE ON THE NEW SCHOOL STRIKE:

We won. After seven months of negotiations with the university and 2 instagram.com/p/CmAy6Z7oqht/
Dec 10, 2022 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
@TheNewSchool bosses have trumpeted promises of big raises for Part-Time Faculty.

They hope to distract @UAW7902 members and allies from their offer's poison pill:

Stripping health care protections—which they just violated—out of the old contract.

Some context:
1/8 "or comparable" The old Part-Time Faculty contract prohibited TNS from changing to non-comparable health plans w/o consultation.

In May 2022, @UAW7902 proved to a third-party arbitrator that @TheNewSchool had been violating the contract for over a year. 2/8
newschoolfreepress.com/2022/05/02/par…
Mar 21, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
This piece is fun and fascinating, but its history is off the mark.

Bachelier's "Theory of Speculation" (1900) didn't inspire the modern hedge fund, even if it came to inform some funds' investment strategies.

The real story is wilder.🧵 1/9
newyorker.com/culture/cultur… The first modern hedge fund arrived on the scene in 1949--decades before the reanimation of Bachelier in the 1970s.

Its "proposition” wasn’t so crass as “profit at all prices.”

Far from it.
jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/artic…

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