Commodity Driven Role Reversal

Eric Coffin submits:David Coffin co-wrote this article. In the 1970s, Baby Boomers were swelling job ranks and women were moving out of the home and into the paid workforce in most of the industrialized world.  At the same time, OPEC pushed crude oil prices through the roof to overturn what it viewed as a predatory system of resource transfer set up by colonial powers.   Complete Story »