Podcast Episode · Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast · September 1 · 36m

You might be more influenced by yuppie taste than you’d think.Back in the eighties – when pop music drowned in synths, the volume of everyone's hair was set to loud, and neon was in vogue – a new age ...

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In the nineteen-eighties, an office job promised security and fulfillment. For graduates starting careers today, the prospect is often tinged with dread.

Skipped History · Episode

In the 1980s, yuppies were celebrated in the media and reviled by many others. Working in finance or as management consultants or lawyers, they quickly put their stamp on cities around the country, di...

Dylan Gottlieb is author of “Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York". He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the social and political changes Yuppies brought throughout...

1980s Reaganomics required an army of ‘young urban professionals’ who went on to reshape both NYC’s culture and US politics

In the 1980s, finance replaced manufacturing as the core of the American economy. This new order gave rise to a new kind of worker, a highly-educated class of young urban professionals, or “yuppies,”...

While pursuing his doctorate at Princeton, Dylan Gottlieb noticed that a large percentage of the undergraduates he taught in history classes were dead set on careers in Wall Street. Rather than lookin...

The young urban professionals of the 1980s changed our cities, our politics and our meritocratic work lives.

How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work?