Erik Loomis is an associate professor of history at the University of Rhode Island. He blogs at Lawyers, Guns, and Money on labor and environmental issues past and present. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Dissent, and the New Republic. The author of Out of Sight, A History of America in Ten Strikes, and Organizing America (all from The New Press) as well as Empire of Timber, he lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Erik Loomis writes, "The more that people know about these issues, the more that they hold corporations accountable - which is precisely why corporations don't want them to know anything."
Salon
Author Erik Loomis discusses why corporations outsource catastrophe and the implications of American consumption.