All Stories

  1. Capitalism requires poor and unemployed workers: Critiquing "informality" and global labor policy

    Article • February 2026, De Gruyter

    Joshua Lew McDermott

  2. Reclaiming the Class Struggle in Africa Today: Four Propositions on the Revolutionary Potential of the Urban Working Class in Africa and a Marxist Critique of Factory-Workerism

    Article • International Critical Thought, April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Joshua Lew McDermott

  3. Difference between Global South cities: Mexico City, Freetown and the global division of urban informal labour

    Article • Urban Studies, September 2024, SAGE Publications

    Joshua Lew McDermott

  4. The Dilemma of Consumerist Masculinity in Capitalist West Africa: Men Navigating Gender, Class, and Romance in Sierra Leone’s Informal Economy

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, August 2024, SAGE Publications

    Joshua Lew McDermott

  5. The Class Foundations of Anti-Marxism Today: Why the Specter Persists

    Article • Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, July 2024, Aletheia - Associacao Cientifica e Cultural

    Joshua Lew McDermott

  6. Changes in Care: Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, May 2023, SAGE Publications

    Joshua Lew McDermott

  7. Searching for the Informal Labor Movement: Theorizing Class and Collective Action among Informal Workers in West Africa

    Article • Review of Radical Political Economics, December 2022, SAGE Publications

    Joshua Lew McDermott

  8. Understanding West Africa’s informal workers as working class

    Article • Review of African Political Economy, January 2021, Review of African Political Economy

    Joshua Lew McDermott

  9. New construction projects, historical sites, and policing in Mexico City

    Article • Urban Studies, February 2019, SAGE Publications

    Joshua McDermott, Joshua Lew McDermott

  10. Editors' Introduction

    Article • Journal of World-Systems Research, March 2018, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Joshua Lew McDermott