erik olin wright cv

CURRICULUM VITAE

revised: January 2013

NAME: Erik Olin Wright

ADDRESS: 1101 Grant Street 8112D Social Science Building

Madison, Wisconsin University of Wisconsin

53711 Madison, Wisconsin 53706

TELEPHONE: (608) 255-6454 (home) (608) 262-2921 (office)

E-mail Address: [email protected]

DATE OF BIRTH: February 9, 1947

BIRTHPLACE: Berkeley, California

EDUCATION AND DEGREES:

Harvard College B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) 1968 Social Studies

Balliol College, Oxford B.A. (First Class Honors) 1970 History

Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Ph.D. 1976 Sociology

AWARDS AND HONORS:

National Science Fair-International, 4th place in biological sciences, 1963

National Science Fair-International, lst place in Mathematics, 1964

National Merit Scholarship, 1964

Woodrow Wilson Scholarship, 1968 (declined)

Fulbright Fellowship, 1968 (declined)

Henry Fellowship for study in England, 1968

Summa Cum Laude, BA in social studies, Harvard College, 1968

Social Science Research Council Pre-Doctoral Research Training Fellowship, 1969

First Class Honors, BA in history, Balliol College, Oxford, 1970

University of California Chancellor's Science Fellowship, 1971

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1972-1975

Kent Fellowship, 1972 (postponed until 1975)

German Marshall Fund Fellowship, 1982-1983

University of Wisconsin Romnes Fellowship, 1983

C. Wright Mills Distinguished Professor, 1990

John D. MacArthur Professorship, 1993

Vilas Distinguished Research Professor, 1998

University of Wisconsin Distinguished Teaching Award, 1998

American Sociological Association Distinguished Publications Award, honorable mention, for Class Counts, 1999

Outstanding paper in Social Stratification, for “Working-Class Power, Capitalist-Class Interests, and Class Compromise”, Center for

the Study of social Inequality, Cornell University, 2001

President, American Sociological Association, 2011-12

POSITIONS HELD:

1983- Professor University of Wisconsin – Madison, Department of Sociology

1987-1988 Visiting Professor University of California – Berkeley, Department of Sociology

1980-1983 Associate Professor University of Wisconsin – Madison, Department of Sociology

1976-1980 Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin – Madison, Department of Sociology

Erik Olin Wright curriculum vitae 2

BOOKS IN PRINT:

1. American Society: How it Really Works (with Joel Rogers), New York: W.W. Norton, 2011

2. Envisioning Real Utopias. London and New York: Verso, 2010

3. Approaches to Class Analysis, edited by Erik Olin Wright. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

4. Deepening Democracy: institutional innovations in empowered participatory governance (with Archon Fung), London:

Verso: 2003. Spanish translation, National University of Colombia Press, 2003.

5. Class Counts: student edition (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

6. Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Chinese Translation, 2004

7. Interrogating Inequality (London: Verso, 1994), Spanish translation, 2005

8. Reconstructing Marxism: essays on Explanation and the Theory of History (with Elliott Sober and Andrew Levine), Verso,

1992 (Portuguese translation, 1993)

9. The Debate on Classes (London: Verso, 1990)

10. Classes (London: Verso, 1985). Spanish translation, 1994.

11. Class Structure and Income Determination, New York: Academic Press, 1979.

12. Class, Crisis and the State, London: New Left Books, 1978; Verso, P

P1979. Translations in Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese,

Korean.

13. The Politics of Punishment: A Critical Analysis of Prisons in America. New York: Harper and Row and Harper Colophon

Books, 1973.

BOOK SERIES EDITOR: Real Utopias Project

Volume 1 Associations and Democracy, by Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, with contributions by Paul Q. Hirst, Ellen

Immergut, Ira Katznelson, Heinz Klug, Andrew Levine, Jane Mansbridge, Claus Offe,, Philippe Schmitter,

Wolfgang Streeck, Andrew Szasz and Iris Young. Edited and introduced by Erik Olin Wright (London: Verso,

1995)

Volume 2 Equal Shares: making market socialism work, by John Roemer, with contributions by Richard J. Arneson, Fred

Block, Harry Brighouse, Michael Burawoy, Joshua Cohen, Nancy Folbre , Andrew Levine, Mieke Meurs, Louis

Putterman, Joel Rogers, Debra Satz, Julius Sensat, William H. Simon, Frank Thompson, Thomas E. Weisskopf,

Erik Olin Wright. Edited and introduced by Erik Olin Wright (London: Verso, 1996)

Volume 3 Recasting Egalitarianism: new rules for equity and accountability in markets, communities and states, by Samuel

Bowles and Herbt Gintis, with contributions by Daniel M. Hausman, Erik Olin Wright, Elaine McCrate, Elinor

Ostrom, Andrew Levine, Harry Brighouse, David M. Gordon, Paula England, John E. Roemer, Karl Ove Moene,

Michael Wallerstein, Peter Skott, Steven N. Durlauf, Ugo Pagano, Michael R. Carter, Karla Hoff . Edited and

Introduced by Erik Olin Wright (London: Verso, 1999)

Volume 4 Deepening Democracy: Innovations in empowered participatory governance. by Archon Fung and Erik Olin

Wright with contributions by Rebecca Neaera Abers, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Joshua Cohen, Patrick Heller, Bradley

C. Karkkainen, Rebecca S. Krantz, Jane Mansbridge, Joel Rogers, Craig W. Thomas, and T.M. Thomas Isaac

(London: Verso, 2003)

Volume 5 Redesigning Distribution: basic income and stakeholder grants as cornerstones of a more egalitarian capitalism,

by Bruce Ackerman, Ann Alstott and Philippe van Parijs, with contributions by Barbara Bergmann, Irv Garfinkle,


Chien-Chung Huang , Wendy Naidich, Julian LeGrand, Carole Pateman, Guy Standing, Stuart White, and Erik

Olin Wright (London: Verso, 2005)

Volume 6 Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor, By Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers, with

contributions by Barbara Bergmann, Johanna Brenner, Harry Brighouse, Scott Coltrane, Rosemary Crompton,

Myra Marx Ferree, Nancy Folbre, Heidi Hartman, Shireen Hassim, Lane Kenworthy, Vicki Lovell, Cameron

MacDonald, Peter McDonald, Ruth Milkman, Kimberly Morgan, Ann Orloff, Michael Shalev, Erik Olin Wright,

Kathrin Zippel. Edited with a Preface by, Erik Olin Wright. (London and New York: Verso, 2009)

ARTICLES IN PRINT:

1. “Transforming Capitalism through Real Utopias” American Sociological Review, February, 2013, pp. 1-26

2. “Class Struggle and Class Compromise in the Era of Stagnation and Crisis,” Transform!: European journal for alternative

thinking and political dialogue, 11/2012, pp. 22-44

3. “Taking the social in socialism seriously”, Socio-economic Review, 2012. 10:286-402

4. “Real Utopias in and Beyond Capitalism: taking the social in socialism seriously”, Nicos Poulantzas Institute, Athens,

Greece: Nissos, 2012)

5. “Reply to Comments on Envisioning Real Utopias,” Symposium on Envisioning Real Utopias, New Political Science,

Volume 34, No 3, September 2012, pp. 399-407

6. “Les Manifestations du Wisconsin,” (with Joao Peschanski), Contre-temps, 11:3, September, 2011, pp. 85-96

7. “Real Utopias,” Contexts, Spring, 2011

8. “The Triadic Model of Society in Somers’ Genealogies of Citizenship,” Socieo-economic Review (2011) 9:405-481 (Also

published in Trajectories vol. 22, No 2, Spring, pp. 8-18

9. “Wege zu einem Sozialismus gesellschaftlicher Handlungsfähigkeit”, Das Argument, 291/2011, pp. 202-208

10. “Understanding Class”, New Left Review, November/December 2009, pp. 101-116

11. “Logics of Class Analysis”, chapter 11 in Social Class: how does it work?, edited by Annette Lareau and Dalton Conley

(New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2008)

12. “Strong Gender Egalitarianism”, with Harry Brighhouse, Politics & Society, September 2008

13. “Sociologists and Economists on ‘The Commons’”, in Pranhab Bardhan and Isha Ray (eds) The Contested Commons

(Blackwell Publishers: 2008)

14. “Guidelines for Envisioning Real Utopias”, Soundings: a journal of politics and culture, 36: summer 2007, pp. 26-39

15. “Compass Points: Towards a Socialist Alternative,” New Left Review, November 2006

16. “Falling into Marxism, Choosing to Stay”, in The Disobedient Generation, edited by Alan Sica and Stephen Turner

(University of Chicago Press, 2005)

17. “Beneficial Constraints: Beneficial for Whom?”, Socio-economic Review 2004, 2 (407-414). Translated into Portuguese as

“Resticoes beficas: beneficas para quem?” Tempo Social, 2004 16:2

18. “Interrogating the Treadmill of production: some questions I still want to know about and am not afraid to ask,”

Organization & Environment, 17:3, September 2004, pp. 317-322

19. “Patterns of Job Expansion and Contraction in the United States, 1960s-1990s”, (with Rachel Dwyer) Socioeconomic Review,

2003, 1: 289-325

20. “The Shadow of Exploitation in Max Weber’s Class Analysis,” American Sociological Review, December 2002

21. “Sociological Marxism”, (with Michael Burawoy), Handbook of Sociological Theory (ed by J. Turner, Plenum Press, 2001)


22. “Complex Egalitarianism”, with Harry Brighouse, Historical Materialism vol 10:1 (2002), pp. 193-222

23. “Foundations of Class Analysis” in Reconfiguring Class, edited by Janeen Baxter and Mark Western (Stanford University

Press, 2001), pp. 14-27

24. “A Conceptual Menu for Studying the Interaction of Class and Gender” in Reconfigurations of Class and Gender, edited by

Janeen Baxter and Mark Western (Stanford University Press, 2001), pp. 28-28

25. “Deepening Democracy: innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance” (with Archon Fung), Politics & Society,

vol.29:1, March 2001, pp.5-42

26. “The American Jobs Machine: patterns of job growth in the 1960s and the 1990s” Boston Review, 25:6, December 2000

27. “Testing the Glass Ceiling: a reply to critics”, (with Janeen Baxter), Gender and Society 14:6, pp. 814-21. December 2000

28. “Class, Exploitation and Economic Rents: reflections on Sorenson’s ‘Towards a Sounder Basis for Class Analysis”,

American Journal of Sociology, Vol 105: 6 (May 2000), pp. 1559-71

29. “Metatheoretical Foundations of Charles Tilly’s, Durable Inequality”, Social Science History, 2000

30. “Real Utopian Proposals for reducing Income and wealth Inequality,” Contemporary Sociology, January 2000

31. “Working-Class Power, Capitalist-Class Interests and Class Compromise,” American Journal of Sociology, Volume 105,

Number 4 (January 2000): 957-1002

32. “Testing the Glass Ceiling Hypothesis: a comparative study of Sweden, The United States, Norway and Australia” (with

Janeen Baxter), Gender & Society, 14:2, pp. 275-94, April 2000

33. “Class Compromise in a Globalizing Capitalism”, in Nico Wilterdink (ed), Globalization and the New World Order (2000)

34. Reflexiones Sobre Socialismo, Capitalismo y Marxismo (Palma de Mallorca: Collecio Contextos, 1997, 65 pp) and

“Reflections on Marxism, Capitalism, and Socialism”, Imprints: a journal of analytical socialism, vol 2. No. 2, October,

1997 pp.100-122 (a shortened translated version).

35. “Rethinking, Once Again, the Concept of Class Structure”, in John Hall, (ed) Reworking Class (Cornell University Press,

1997)

36. “Marxism After Communism”, in Stephen P. Turner (ed), Social Theory & Sociology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996)

37. “Equality, Community, and Efficient Redistribution”, Politics & Society, December, 1996

38. “The Enduring Importance of Class Analysis,” Theory & Society, December, 1996

39. “The Gender Gap in Authority: a comparative analysis of the United States, Canada, The United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway

and Japan” (with Janeen Baxter) The American Sociological Review, June, 1995

40. “Coupon Socialism and Socialist Values,” New Left Review #210, March/April, 1995, pp.153-160

41. The Class Analysis of Poverty,” International Journal of Health Services, vol. 25:1, 1995, pp.85-100.

Debate in this journal over this paper:

Tony Novak, “The Class Analysis of Poverty -- a Response to Erik Olin Wright”

Erik Olin Wright “Reply to Novak,” International Journal of Health Services, Vol.26: No.2, 1996

Robert Chernomas and Ardeshit Sepehri, “The Class Analysis of Poverty: is the underclass living off the socially

available surplus?”, International Journal of Health Services (1997)

Erik Olin Wright, “Who Pays for the State?: a reply to Robert Chernomas and Ardeshir Sepehri, “Is the underclass

living off the socially available surplus?” International Journal of Health Services (1997)

42. “Political Power, Democracy and Coupon Socialism”, Politics and Society, December, 1994

43. “The Permeability of Class Boundaries to Intergenerational Mobility: a comparative study of the United States, Canada,

Norway and Sweden”, American Sociological review, June 1994 (with Mark Western)


44. “Class Analysis, History and Emancipation “ New Left Review, No. 202, November-December, 1993. Reprinted in The

Sociology of Politics, edited by William Outhwaite and Luke Martell, (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishers, 1996)

45. “Historical Materialism: Theory and Methodology,” (with Elliott Sober and Andrew Levine), Science & Society, (Spring,

1994) vol.50:1, pp.53-60

46. “Explanation and Emancipation in Marxism and Feminism”, Sociological Theory, March 1993

47. “Class and Politics”, Oxford Companion on Politics (1993)

48. “Typologies, Scales and Class Analysis: a comment on Halaby and Weakliem's `Ownership and Authority in the Earnings

Function'” American Sociological Review, 58:1 (February): 31-34

49. “Ideology and State Employment: a comparative analysis of the United States and Sweden”, (with Donmoon Cho) Politics &

Society, June 1992

50. “The Noneffects of Class on the sexual division of labor in the home: a comparative analysis of Sweden and the United

States”, (with Karen Shire, Shu-Ling Huang, Maureen Dolan and Janeen Baxter) Gender & Society, June 1992

51. “The Permeability of Class Boundaries to Friendships: a comparative analysis of the United States, Canada, Sweden and

Norway” (with Donmoon Cho) American Sociological Review, February, 1992

52. “Falling into Marxism; Choosing to Stay,” Mid-America Review of Sociology, 1991

53. “Coercion and Consent in Contested Exchange”, (with Michael Burawoy), Politics & Society, June, 1990

54. “What is Analytical Marxism?”, Socialist Review, 89/4, December, 1989

55. “The Comparative Project on Class Structure and Class Consciousness: an Overview,” Acta Sociologica, Spring, 1989

56. “Marxism as Science”, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 1989

57. “Class Structure and Class Formation” (with Carolyn Howe and Donmoon Cho), in Melvin Kohn (ed), Comparative

Sociology, (Beverly Hills: Sage ASA Presidental Volume), 1989

58. “The Fall and Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie” (with George Steinmetz), The American J. of Sociology, March 1989

59. “Women in the Class Structure”, Politics & Society, March, 1989

60. “Exploitation, Identity and Class Structure: a reply to critics”, Critical Sociology, Summer 1988

61. “Temporality and Class Analysis: a comparative analysis of Class Structure, Class Trajectory amd Class Consciousness in

Sweden and the United States,” (with Kwang-Yeong Sin), Sociological Theory, Spring, 1988

62. “Reflections on Classes”, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 1987

63. “The Transformation of the American Class Structure, 1960-1980" (with Bill Martin), American Journal of Sociology, July

1987

64. “Marxism and Methodological Individualism,” (with Elliott Sober and Andrew Levine), New Left Review, #162, 1987

65. “Why Something like Socialism is necessary for the transition to something like Communism (Theory and Society, 1986)

66. “A General Framework for the Analysis of Class Structure” Politics & Society, 1985. (reprinted in Foundations of Analytical

Marxism, ed. by John Roemer, Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd)

67. “What is Middle about the Middle Class,” in John Roemer (ed.), Analytical Marxism (Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 1985). also translated into German in the journal Prolka, and into Spanish in the journal Zona Arbierta

68. “What is 'neo' and what is 'Marxist' in Neo-Marxist Class Analysis?” in J. Goldthorpe and H. Strasser (eds), Die Analyse der

Sozialen Ungleichheit: Kontinuitat, Erneuerung, Innovation (Opladen-Wiesbaden: Westduetscher Verlag, 1985)

69. “Class Structure in Sweden and the United States: a comparison” (with Goran Ahrne), Acta Sociologica, November, 1983.

70. “Gidden's Critique of Marx” New Left Review, #l39, 1983. Spanish translation in Zona Arbieto\ (1984).


71. “Capitalism's Future: a reconceptualization of the problem of post-capitalist modes of production,” Socialist Review, #69,

1983.

72. “The American Class Structure,” with David Hachen, Joey Sprague and Cynthia Costello, American Sociological Review,

Dec. 1982. Russian translation (1985).

73. “The Status of the Political in the Concept of Class Structure,” Politics & Society, l0:3, 1982.

74. “Proletarianization in Contemporary Capitalism” (with Joachim Singelmann), American Journal of Sociology\, supplement to

Vol. 83, 1982.

75. “Reconsiderations” (an extended reply to critics of item #l4 above), in The Value Controversy (London: New Left Books,

198l), pp. l30-l62.

76. “Rationality and Class Struggle” (with Andrew Levine), New Left Review, No. l23, 1980.

77. “Class and Occupation” (a substantial revision of “Class Structure, Occupations and Organization,” above), Theory and

Society, Vol. 9:l, 1980.

78. “Varieties of Marxist Conceptions of Class Structure,” Politics & Society, Vol. 9:3, 1980.

79. “Class Structure, Occupations and Organization,” in The International Yearbook of Organizational Studies, Vol. I, 1979

(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul).

80. “The Labor Theory of Value and Social Research,” New Left Review, No. ll6, July, 1979. Reprinted in The Value

Controversy, by Ian Steedman, et. al. (London: New Left Books, 198l).

81. “Race, Class and Income Inequality,” American Journal of Sociology, May, 1978. Reprinted in Giddens and Held, Classes,

Power and Conflict (1982).

82. “Intellectuals and the Working Class,” The Insurgent Sociologist, summer, 1978, slightly condensed as “Intellectuals and the

Class Structure of Capitalist Societies,” in Between Labor and Capital, ed. by Pat Walker, Boston: South End Press, 1978.

Reprinted in Quinney, Capitalist Society (Dorsey Press, 1979). Translated into Spanish in En Teoria, No. 2, 1979.

83. “Marxist Class Categories and Income Inequality,” (with Luca Perrone) American Sociological Review, Volume 42, No. l,

February, 1977.

84. “Class Boundaries in Advanced Capitalist Society,” New Left Review, #98, July-August (1976). Translated into Swedish,

published in Zenit (1978). Reprinted in Giddens and Held (ed.), Classes, Power and Conflict (1982)

85. “Modes of Class Struggle and the Capitalist State,” (with Roger Friedland and Gosta Anderson). Kapitalistate, no. 4 (1976).

Reprinted in Quinney, Capitalist Society (The Dorsey Press, 1979).

86. “Alternative Perspectives in the Marxist Theory of Accumulation and Crisis, The Insurgent Sociologist, Fall (1975), reprinted

in The Subtle Analysis of Capitalism, ed. by Jesse Schwartz, Goodyear Publishers, 1977. Translated into Portuguese.

87. “Classi Sociali, Scuola, Occupazione e Reddito in U.S.A.: Una Analisi Quantitativa Sulle Diseguaglianze Sociali in Una

Societa Post-Industriale” (with Luca Perrone) Quaderni di Sociologia, Vol. XXIV: No. l-2 (1975).

88. “Recent Developments in the Marxist Theory of the State,” (with David Gold and Clarence Lo) Monthly Review, September

and October, 1975. Translated into Spanish, German, Greek. Reprinted in anthologies in Mexico and Australia.

89. “To Control or to Smash Bureaucracy: Weber and Lenin on Politics, the State and Bureaucracy,” Berkeley Journal of

Sociology, Vol. XIX pp. 69-108, (1974).

90. “Lo Stato Nella Teoria Funzionalista e Marxista-Strutturalista,” with Luca Perrone, Studi di Sociologia, Vol. XI (1973), pp.

365-424. (“The Functionalist and Structuralist Marxist Theories of the State”).

91. “A Study of Student Leaves of Absence,” The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. XLIV, no. 3 (1973).

92. “Analysis of the Total Number of Twists Resulting from Cutting Any Order Moebius Band With Any Number of Cuts,”

Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences, Vol. 67, no. 2 (1964).

93. “Response to Auditory Stimulus in the Developing Rat,” Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences, 66:2 (1963).


MINOR ARTICLES AND BOOK REVIEWS

1. “Rethinking the Ruling Class” (Review Essay of Goran Therborn's book, What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?),

Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 9:l, 1980.

2. “Review of Rainwater and Coleman, Social Standing in America,” American Journal of Sociology, 1980.

3. “Reply to Keyfitz,” Contemporary Sociology.

4. “Is Marxism Really Functionalist, Teleological and Class Reductionist?” American Journal of Sociology, Sept. 1983.

5. “Positional Power, Strikes and Wages: Postscript,” American Sociological Review, June, 1984, pp. 42l-426.

6. “Review of Tom Bottomore, A Dictionary of Marxist Thought,” Contemporary Sociology, 1986.

7. “The Intellectual Saga of Althusserian Marxism: a review essay of The Rise and Fall of Structural Marxism by Ted Benton,”

Contemporary Sociology, 1986

8. “Towards a Post-Marxist Radical Theory”, Contemporary Sociology, November, 1987.

9. “Inequality,” in The New Palgrave, ed. by John Eatwell (London: Macmillan, 1987.)

10. “Reply to Linder and Houghton”, American Journal of Sociology 96:3, November 1990

11. “Reply to Critics” (with Elliott Sober and Andrew Levine), Symposium on Reconstructing Marxism, South African Review of

Sociology, Summer, 1993

12. “Coupon Socialism and Socialist Values,” New Left Review #210, March/April, 1995, pp.153-160

13. “Review of Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy,” Contemporary Sociology, March 1996

14. “Reply to Novak,” International Journal of Health Services, Vol.26: No.2, 1996 (reply to critique of article #53 above)

15. “Who Pays for the State?: a reply to Robert Chernomas and Ardeshir Sepehri, 'Is the underclass living off the socially

available surplus?'” International Journal of Health Services Vol. 27: No 2, 1997

16. “Introductory comments to ‘Alternative Perspectives in Marxist Theory of Accumulation and Crisis” (introducing the

reprinting of this paper, originally published in 1976), in Rhonda Levine (ed), Enriching the Sociological Imagination: how

radical sociology changed the discipline (Brill: 2004)

17. “Social Class”, Encyclopedia of Sociological Theory (edited by George Ritzer), Sage, 2005

18. “Classe Sociale,” in Massimo Borlandi, Raymond Boudon, Mohamed Cherkaoui, and Bernard Valade (editors) Dictionaire

de la pensee sociologique, (Parisd: PUF, 2005) pp.95-98

19. “Review of The Moral Significance of Class, by Andrew Sayer,” American Journal of Sociology, pp. 1557-1560, 2007

PUBLISHED SYMPOSIA AND DEBATES

1. Discussion Forum on Erik Olin Wright’s Envisioning Real Utopias, Socio-economic Review, 2012. 10: 369-402

Marion Fourcase, “The socialization of capitalism or the neoliberalization of socialism?”, pp. 369-75

Dylan Riley, Neo-Tocquevillian Marxism: Erik Olin Wright’s Real Utopias” pp. 375-81

Cihuan Tugal, “Intermittent revolution: the road to a hybrid socialism”, pp. 382-6

Erik Olin Wright, “Taking the social in socialism seriously”, p. 286-402


2. Engaging Emancipatory Social Science and Social Theory: a Symposium on Erik Olin Wright’s Envisioning Real Utopias,”

edited by Thad Williamson, New Political science, Vol. 34:2, August, 2012.

Thad Williamson, “Emancipatory Politics, Emancipatory Political Science”

Craig Borowiak, “Scaling Up Utopias: E.O. Wright and the Search for Economic Alternatives”

J.S. Maloy, “Real Utopias in a Gilder Age: the case of American Populism”

Gar Alperowitz, et. Al., “Building Real Utopias: the emerging project of evolutionary reconstruction.”

Erik Olin Wright, “Reply to Comments on Envisioning Real Utopias”

3. The Class Analysis of Poverty,” International Journal of Health Services, vol. 25:1, 1995, pp.85-100.

Debate over this paper:

Tony Novak, “The Class Analysis of Poverty -- a Response to Erik Olin Wright”

Erik Olin Wright “Reply to Novak,” International Journal of Health Services, Vol.26: No.2, 1996

Robert Chernomas and Ardeshit Sepehri, “The Class Analysis of Poverty: is the underclass living off the socially

available surplus?”, International Journal of Health Services (1997)

Erik Olin Wright, “Who Pays for the State?: a reply to Robert Chernomas and Ardeshir Sepehri, “Is the underclass

living off the socially available surplus?” International Journal of Health Services (1997)

Published Extended Interviews

“Des utopies possibles aux utopies réelles. Entretien avec Erik Olin Wright”, interview by Vincent Farnea and Laurent

Jeanpierre, Traces, May, 2013

“Analytical Marxism and Real Utopias: an interview with Erik Olin Wright” Interview in La Vie Des Idees, November 2012.

http://www.booksandideas.net/Analytic-Marxism-and-Real-Utopias.html?lang=fr

“La clase sigue siendo uno de las divisions centrales en las sociedades capitalistas contemporáneas. Entrevista”

www.sinpermiso.iinfo, 28 septiembre 2008

"Entrevista: Erik Olin Wright e Michael Burawoy" by Ruy Braga e Alvaro Bianchi (Portuguese) in CULT #122, 2008

“Razgovor s Erikom Olinom Wrightom” Diskrepancija (Zagreb) vol V, no 9. 2004

Interview by Mark Kirby, Social Science Teacher published on the web at: HUhttp://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/105wright.htm UH

“Reflections on Marxism, Capitalism, and Socialism”, Imprints: a journal of analytical socialism, vol 2. No. 2, October, 1997

pp.100-122

MAJOR GRANTS

l. National Science Foundation, 1979-1982, $330,000 P

*P

“Dimensions of Social Inequality in Western Societies” P

*PAdditional grants by collaborators in this project in other countries have been obtained in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark,

Canada, Britain, New Zealand, Australia, West Germany, Japan, Hungary, the USSR, Spain, Portugal, Taiwan, South Korea,

Switzerland. The total funding for all projects combined is approximately $2.8 million.

2. National Science Foundation, 1982-1985, $195,000

“Social Structure and Class Consciousness in Contemporary Industrial Societies”

3. German Marshall Fund Fellowship, 1982-1983, $34,000

http://www.booksandideas.net/Analytic-Marxism-and-Real-Utopias.html?lang=fr

http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Published%20writing/CULT-interview-2008.pdf

http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/105wright.htm



“Archiving cross-national survey on class structure and class consciousness”

5. National Science Foundation, Renewal of grant #3, 1985-1987, $104,000


“Comparative Project on Class Structure and Class Consciousness, United States and the USSR”

7. MacArthur Foundation, 1990-1992, $140,000


8. Spencer Foundation, 1990-1992, $206,000 (two grants)


9. National Science Foundation, 1992-1994, $97,000 “Class and Class Consciousness in the USA and Russia”

10. MacArthur Foundation, Economic Equality and efficiency network, grants for Real Utopias Project

2000, $15,000

2003-5, $40,000

11. MacArthur Foundation, Economic Equality and efficiency network, “Changing patterns of job expansions: a comparative

analysis of the United States and Europe, 1950-2000".2003-2004 $25,000

PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:

“The Relationship of Authority Structures to Race and Sex Discrimination” Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, March

1974.

“Structural Class Position and Income Inequality,” American Sociological Association Meetings, August, 1975.

“Modes of Class Struggle and the Capitalist State” (with Gosta Anderson and Roger Friedland), American Political Science

Association Meetings, September, 1976.

“Class Structure, Occupations and Organizations,” American Sociological Association Meetings, September, 1978.

“Proletarianization in Advanced Capitalist Societies” (with Joachim Singelmann), American Sociological Association, 1978.

“Capitalism's Futures”

Conference on “The Theory of the State in Contemporary Capitalism,” Puebla University, Puebla, Mexico, October, 1979

Conference on “New Developments in the Theory of the State”, University of Toronto, December, 1979

“Reply to Critics,” featured session “Authors meet the Critics,” American Sociological Association meetings, Sept. 1982.

“What is Neo and What is Marxist in Neo-Marxist Class Analysis”, Marx Centenary Conference, Paris, France, December,1983.

“States and Classes in Recent Radical Theory” American Sociological Association, 1986

“Class Structure and Class Formation: a comparison of Sweden and the United States”, American Sociological Association, 1987

“Explanation and Emancipation in Marxism and feminism”, American Sociological Association annual meetings, August, 1990

“The Permeability of Class Boundaries”, VIth International Conference of the Comparative Class Analysis Project, Granada,

Spain, July, 1991

“Reconstructing Class Analysis”, Keynote Address, Association for Sociology in South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, June,

1992


“Marxism After Communism”, American Sociological Association Meeting, August, 1992

“Reconstructing Marxism”, Keynote Address, Conference of Portugese Philosophers, Coimbra, Portugal, March, 1993

“Confirmations, Surprises and Reconstructions”

Analytical Marxism Conference, University College, London, September 1995

“Workers Power, Capitalist Interests” and “Beneficial Constraints: Beneficial for whom”, Society for the Advancement of

Socio-economics , annual meeting, Vienna, July 1998

“Author meets the critics session on Class Counts” , Society for the Advancement of Socio-economics , annual meeting,

Vienna, July 1998

“Author meets the critics: discussion of Class Counts”, American Sociological Association, 1998

“Author meets the Critics: discussion of Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy” American Sociological Association, 1998

“Author meets the critics: discussion of Charles Tilly, Durable Inequality” Social Science History Association Annual meeting,

November 1998

“The American Jobs Machine,” Society for the Study of Socio-Economics, Annual Meeting, Madison, July, 1999

“Foundations of Class Analysis,” American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 1999

“The American Jobs Machine,” Analytical Marxism Annual Meeting, Oxford University, September 1999

“Sociological Marxism”, Analytical Marxism Annual Meeting, NYU, September 2000

“The American Jobs Machine,” MacArthur Network on Inequality and Economic Performance, MIT, October 2000

“Patterns of Job Growth in the United States, 1960-2000" Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting,

Minneapolis, June 2001

“A Framework for Understanding Empowered Participatory Governance”, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.

August, 2002

“Taking the Social in Socialism Seriously,” Annual Conference of SASE, Washington, D.C. July 2004

“Envisioning Real Utopias,” American Sociological Association, August 2004

“Taking the Social in Socialism Seriously,” Analytical Marxism Conference, New York, September 2004

‘Reflections on Biography and Social Theory,” American Sociological Association annual meetings, Montreal, August 2006

“Taking the Social in Socialism Seriously,” ASA Meeting, August 2007

‘Three Logics of Job Creation in Capitalist Economies,” Plenary session, American Sociological Association, August 2008

“Gender Equality: transforming gender divisions of labor,” Eastern Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore,

March 2009

“From Paradigm Battles to Pragmatist Realism: towards and Integrated Class Analysis,” the Comprehending Class Conference,

University of Johannesburg, South Africa, June, 2009

“Envisioning Real Utopias” and “Overcoming exclusion or overcoming inequality?” International Sociological Association,


Gothenburg, Sweden, July, 2010

“Comment on Peggy Somers, Genealogies of Citizenship”, author meets the critics session, American Sociological Association

meetings, August, 2010

INVITED LECTURES:

“Class Structure and Income Inequality”

Harvard University, Department of Sociology, December, 1976

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Vienna, Austria, December, 1976

Norges Almenvitenskapelige Forskningsrad, Oslo, Norway, January, 1977

“Class Structure of Advanced Capitalist Societies”

Brandeis University, Department of Sociology, December, 1976

“Class Structure and Class Struggle”

University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, April, 1977

“The Causal Logic Within Marxist Theories of the State”

Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, October, 1977

“Multivariate Marxism”

Department of Sociology, Yale University, February 6, 1978

“What is 'Middle' about the 'Middle Class'”

Department of Sociology, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), March 3, 1978

“Proletarianization and Transformation of Industrial Sectors in the American Economy” Sociology Department,

SUNY-Binghamton, May 1978

“The Relevance of the Labor Theory of Value to Marxist Empirical Research”

Conference of Value and the Theory of Crisis, sponsored by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the

New Left Review, London, England, November 3-5, 1978

“Transformations of Class Relations in Contemporary American Society”

Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Essex, England, November 9, 1978

Department of Sociology, University of Kent, November, 1978

Department of Sociology, Norwich University, November, 1978

“Current Debates Over the Concept of Class”

Department of Sociology, University of Kent, November, 1978

“Strategies for the Study of Class Structures”

Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, November 1978

“Transformations of Class Relations in Contemporary American Society”

Department of Sociology, University of Oslo, November, 1978

“On the Logic of Studying Income Determination” and “What is 'Middle' about the Middle Classes?”

Department of Sociology, University of Winnipeg, January l6, 1979

“What is 'Middle' About the 'Middle Class'”

University Lecture sponsored by the Department of Sociology,


University of Chicago, February l6, 1979. Broadcast on National

Public Radio series “From the Midway.”

“The Theory of Class Relations and the Transformation of Class Structures”

Department of Sociology, Duke University, March, 1979

“The Transformation of the United States Class Structure”

Conference on Social Science and Philosophy, Inter-University Center,Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, April, 1979

Free University of Amsterdam, April, 1979

European Consortium on Political Research Conference on “Industry and Authority,” Brussels, April, 1979

Department of Socersity of Milan, Italy, April, 1979

Department of Sociology, University of Turin, April, 1979

Department of Sociology, Harvard University, May, 1979

Department of Sociology, University of Utah, May, 1979

“The Logic of Determination in Marxist Theory,” “Transformations of the U.S. Class Structure” and “Class Structure and

Income Determination”

Department of Sociology, University of California - Santa Barbara, June 1979

“Theories of the State in Contemporary Marxism”

Institute of Sociology, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, August, 1979

“Capitalism's Futures”

Conference on “The Theory of the State in Contemporary Capitalism,” Puebla University, Puebla, Mexico, October, 1979

Conference on “New Developments in the Theory of the State”, University of Toronto, December, 1979

“Dynamics of Change in the American Class Structure,”

Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, February, 1980

“Are Interests Objective?”

Department of Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle, February 1981

“Class and Patriarchy”

Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, February 1981

“Problems of Class Analysis” (three week lecture series)

Lund University, Sweden, May, 1981

“The American Class Structure: New perspectives and New Data”

Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, April, 1981

Research Colloquium, Norweigan Sociological Associaiton, Gol, Norway, May, 1981

“Reply to Critics”, featured session, “Authors meet the Critics”,

American Sociological Association Meetings, September, 1982.

“Agency and Interests in Class Analysis”,

Conference on Class Formation, Maison de Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, September 1982

“Class Structure and Class Consciousness in Sweden and the United States”,

Dept. of Political Science, University of Chicago, February, 1983.

“Comparative research on class structure”,

King's College, Cambridge University, England, May, 1983

Conference of European Studies, Washington D.C., October 1983


“Rethinking the Middle Classes”, paper presented at conference on Analytical Marxism, University College, London,

September, 1983

“A General Framework for the Analysis of Classes”,

Center for European Studies, Harvard University, October 1983

Sociology Department, University of Arizona, November 1983

Sociology Department, University of Michigan, February 1984

“Problems of Contemporary Marxist Class Analysis”,

a series of four lectures, University of Puerto Rico, March, 1984

“Rethinking Once Again the Marxist Theory of Class”:

Hungarian Sociological Assoc. Lecture, Budapest, Sept 1984

University College, London, September 1984

University of Oslo, September, 1984

University of Toronoto, January, 1986

“Class Structure and Class Consciousness”

University of Copenhagen, April 1985

University of Amsterdam, April 1985

Krakow University, Poland, April 1985

Sociology Institute, Ac. of Sciences, Warsaw, April 1985

Helsinki University, April, 1985

“Individuals and Families in the Class Structure, Sociology Department, Harvard University, May, 1986

“The Problem of the Middle Classes in Marxist Theory”

Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, June, 1986

“Problems of Contemporary Class Analysis”

Lectures series at Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, May, 1988

Shanghai Academy of Sciences, May, 1988

“Rethinking of the concept of Class Structure”

Conference on “bringing Classes Back In, University of Kansas, April, 1989

“What is Analytical Marxism?”

Invited Keynote Talk, Brazilian Sociological Association Meetings, Rio di Janeiro, June, 1989

“Rethinking the Concept of Class Structure”

Conference on “Marxism in the New Global Economy”, Soeul, South Korea, November 1989

“Problems of Contemporary Marxist Class Analysis”

Series of ten lectures, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Vienna, Austria, May, 1990

“Reconstructing Marxism”

Clark University, October, 1991

Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, November 1991

Louisiana State University, March, 1991

“Falling into Marxism; Choosing to Stay”

University of Kansas, April 1991


“Class Alliance and Class Formation”, “Explanation and Emancipation in Marxism and Feminism”, “Rethinking Class Analysis”

University of Capetown, Capetown South Africa, June, 1992

University of Witwaterstrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, June, 1992

University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, June, 1992

University of Durban-Westville, Durban South Africa, June, 1992

“Class Analysis and Explanation”

Conference on Rethinking Marxism, University of Massachusetts, November, 1992

“Current Problems of Class Analysis”

University of Madrid, March, 1993

University of Lisbon, March, 1993

University of Coimbra, Portugal, March, 1993

“The Status of Class Analysis in a Reconstructed Marxism”

Conference of “Wither Marxism?”, University of California-Riverside, April, 1993

“Marxism After Communism”

Analytical Marxism Conference, University College, London, September, 1993

“Problems in Class Analysis” (Three lectures)

Fondacion Argentaria, Madrid Spain, October, 1994

“Class Analysis, Exploitation and the Shmoo”

Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, November 1994

Department of Sociology, University of Haiwaii, December 1994

“Class Analysis, Exploitation and the Shmoo” and “Marxist and Weberian Approaches to Class”

Department of Sociology, University of Haiwaii, December 1994

Department of Sociology, Shing-hua University, Taiwan, December 1994

Department of Sociology, Taiwan National University, Taiwan, December 1994

“Capitalism, Exploitation, and the Shmoo”

University of Michigan, Department of Sociology, October 1994

Haverford College, March, 1995

UCLA, May, 1995

University of California, Davis, May, 1995

University of California, Riverside, May, 1995

“Class Formation in Globalizing Capitalism”

Program in Economics and Philosophy, University of Louvain-le-Neuve, Belgium, November 1996

Conference on “Globalization and the New Inequality,” University of Utrecht, Netherlands, November 1996

“Class Formation in Globalizing Capitalism”

Program in Economics and Philosophy, University of Louvain-le-Neuve, Belgium, Nov. 1996

Conference on “Globalization and the New Inequality,” University of Utrecht, Netherlands, November 1996

“Workers Power and Capitalist Interests: rethinking the concept of Class Compromise”

Department of Scoiology, University of Coimbra, Portugal, March, 1997

Department of Sociology, University of Barcelona, March, 1997

Juan March Institute, Madrid, March, 1997

CREPRAMAP, Paris, March, 1997


Four lectures on Problems in Class Analysis

Department of Scoiology, University of Salamanca, Spain, March, 1997

“Class, Exploitation and the Shmoo”

Ecole Normal Superieur, Paris, March 1997

“A Conceptual Menu for the Study of Class and Gender” and “The Changing Contexts of Class Analysis”

Australian National University, July, 1997


University of Adelaide, July 1997

University of Western Australia, July 1997

University of Brisbane, July 1997

“Rethinking Class Compromise”

Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia, July, 1997

University of Sydney, July 1997

“Reconstructing Marxism”

Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, July, 1997

Lectures on the foundations of Class Analysis, University of Barcelona, December 1997

“The Simple Foundations of Class Analysis”

“Adding complexities (without losing the forest in the trees)”

“A Conceptual Menu for the study of Class and Gender”

“Workers Power, Capitalist Interests”

Four Lectures ob Class Analysis, University of Rio Grande do Sol, Porto Alegre, Brazil, June, 1998

Class, Exploitation and the Shmoo

Yale University, Februarsy 1999

Reed College, March 1999

Portland State University, March, 1999

Oberlin College, April 1999

Earlham College, April, 1999

University of Akureyri, Iceland, May, 1999

University of Iceland, Reykjiavik, June 1999

University of South Carolina, April, 2000

Rethinking Class Compromise

University of Colorado, Boulder, March, 1999

A Smorgasbord of Tasty Methodological Tidbits

University of Akureyri, Iceland, May, 1999

“The American Jobs Machine,” Society for the Study of Socio-Economics, Annual Meeting, Madison, July, 1999

“Foundations of Class Analysis: a Marxist Perspective,” Thematic Panel, American Sociological Association, August 1999

“The American Jobs Machine”, Analytical Marxism Conference, Oxford University, September 1999

“Foundations of Class Analysis: none lectures”

University of California, Berkeley, February 2000

“Experiments in Deliberative Democracy” and “Envisioning Real Utopias”

International Conference on Democratic Decentralization, Trivandrum, India May 2000


“Rethinking Class Compromise”

Center for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala, India, June 2000


“Alternative Class Analyses: Bourdieu, Goldthorpe, Wright”

Department of Sociology

Oslo University, Norway October 2000

“Teaching Radical Sociology” and “Experiments in Empowered Participatory Governance”


University of Minnesota

December 2000

“The American Jobs Machine: job Expansion in the 1960s and 1990s”

Department of Sociology, Oxford, January 2001

“Why Exploitation is an Interesting Concept even if you do not like Marxism”

Nuffield College, Oxford, May 2001

London School of Economics, June 2001

“Complex Egalitarianism”

London School of Economics, May 2001

“Envisioning Real Utopias”

Social Market Foundation, London, June 2001

“Class Exploitation and the Shmoo”


Cornell University, October 2001

“Foundations of Class Analysis”

Lecture series

University of California, Berkeley

March, 2002

“The State of American Sociology Today: on the peaceful coexistence of Professionals and Intellectuals”

Centre Americain, Science Po, Paris, May 2002

“Changing patterns of job growth in the United States” and “Class, Exploitation and the Shmoo”

Centre Americain, Science Po, Paris, May 2002

“Sociology for ‘Another World is Possible’” and “Deepening Democracy”

World Social Forum III, Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 2003

“Deepening Democracy”, “Class Analysis,” “Envisioning Real Utopias”

Academy of Sciences, Havana, Cuba, March 2003

“Sociological Marxism”

Sociology Department, NYU, March 2003

“Sociological Marxism” and “Deepening Democracy”

Sociology Department, CUNY Graduate Center, April 2003


“Deepening Democracy”

Sociology Department, University of Utah, April 2003

“Envisioning Real Utopias,” “Myths of Crime and Punishment” and “The Shape of Things to Come”

Adelaide Festival of Ideas

Adelaide Australia, July 10-13, 2003

“Democratic Egalitarianism: a general framework for a new politics on the Left”

The Hawke Center, University of South Australia, July 15, 2003

“Envisioning Real Utopias”, series of six lectures, Department of Sociology, University of California Berkeley, March 2004

“Sociological Marxism”, four lectures, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May 2004

“Empowered Participatory Governance” and “Taking the Social in Socialism Seriously,” Institute for Development Studies,

Sussex University, May 2004

“Empowered Participatory Governance”

Research Group, Chancellor of Exchequor’s Office, London

Strategy Group, Prime Ministers Office, London

House of Commons, London

May 2004

“Envisioning Real Utopias,” American Sociological Association, August 2004

“Taking the Social in Socialism Seriously”

Annual Analytical Marxism Conference

New York, September 2004

“Job Polarization in Post-Industrial Society”

Conference on Post-Industrialism and Inequality, Yale University, January 2004

“Taking the Social in Socialism Seriously”

Sociology Department, University of Arizona

February 2005

“Basic Income as a Socialist Project”

Keynote address, Annual Conference of of US-BIG

New York, March 2005

“Envisioning Real Utopias

Department of Sociology, University of Umea, Sweden, May 2005

Sociology Department, Charles University, Prague, May 2005

Sociology Department, University of Zagreb, Croatia, May 2005

Sociology Department, University of Trento, Italy May 2005

“Taking the ‘Social’ in Socialism Seriously”

Department of Sociology, University of Umea, Sweden, May 2005

Seminar at the Czech Parliament, Prague, May, 2005

Croatian Sociological Association, Zagreb, Croatia, May 2005

Sociology Department, University of Trento, Italy May 2005

Conference on Moral Economy, University of Lancaster, August 2006

“Rethinking Inequality” and “Envisioning Real Utopias”


School of Social Ecology, U.C. Irvine, November 2005

“Taking the ‘Social’ in Socialism Seriously,”

Inaugural lecture, School of Social Justice, University College, Dublin, December 2005

Department of Sociology, Princeton University, January 2006

London School of Economics, February, 2006

Conference on Moral Economy, University of Lancaster, August 2006


Keynote address, conference on Marx, Hegel and Psychoanalysis, Sarajevo, January 2006

“Envisioning Real Utopias”,

a six-part lecture series, Department of Sociology, UC- Berkeley, March 2006

“If Class is the Answer, What is the Question,” conference on “Social Class: How does it Work?”, NYU, April 2006

“Reflections on Biography and Social Theory,” American Sociological Association annual meetings, Montreal, August 2006


University of Toronto, October 2006

NYU (four lectures) February 2007

Columbia University February 2007

Haverford College, March 2007

Wheaton College, March 2007

Tohuku University, Sendai, Japan, April 2007

Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, April 2007

Kwansai Gakuin University, Japan, April 2007

Kyoto University, Japan, April 2007

University of Tokyo, Japan, April 2007

Economic Polarization and the Fate of the Middle Class

University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan, April 2007

Osaka University, Japan, April 2007

Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, April 2007


University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2007

“Three Logics of Class Analysis”

University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2007

“The Possibilities of Marxism Today”

Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, May 2007

“Envisioning Real Utopias” July, 2007

Renmin University, Beijing China

Tsinghua University, Beijing

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing

Sun-Yat Sen University, Guangzhou

Nanjing University

Fundan University, Shanghai

“Logics of Class Analysis and the Middle Class”

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences conference on Comparative Research on the Middle Class, Changsha, July 2007



Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg South Africa, September 2007 (four lectures)

University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg South Africa, September 2007

University of California, Berkeley, October 2007 (a lecture series of 8 lectures and seminars)

University of Trondheim, Norway, November 2007 (three lectures)

Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, November 2007 (four lectures)

Bogazici University, Istanbul, November 2007

University of Minnesota, December 2007

University of Barcelona, May 2008

University of Milano, June 2008 (4 lectures)

University of Sienna, June 2008

University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, September 2008

Sciences Po, Paris, October and December 2008

Lancaster University, December 2008

Johns Hopkins University, March 2009

“From Paradigm Battles to Pragmatist Realism: towards and Integrated Class Analysis,”

University of Johannesburg, South Africa, June, 2009

“From Paradigm Battles to Pragmatist Realism: towards and Integrated Class Analysis,”

Columbia University, School of Public Health, January 2010

“The Social Economy”

Columbia University, Department of Sociology, 2010

“The Social Economy: a niche in capitalism or a route beyond capitalism?”

University of Quebec in Montreal, February 2010

“Envisioning real Utopias”

Concordia University, Montreal, February 2010

“A Framework for Emancipatory Social Science” and “From Paradigm Battles to Pragmatist Realism: towards and Integrated

Class Analysis,”

Roskilde University, Denmark, March 2010

“The Social Economy: a niche in capitalism or a route beyond capitalism?” and “What is the goal of gender emancipation:

gender equality or genderlessness?”

University of Copenhagen, March 2010

“Empowered Participatory Governance”

Public forums, organized by CEDIB: Santa Crus, Cochabamba and La Paz, Bolivia, March 2010

“Envisioning real Utopias”

La Paz, Bolivia, March 2010

West Coast Poverty Center, University of Washington, Seattle, April 2010

“Three Logics of Democratization”, Presentation at Rosario International Congress on “Deepening Democracy as a Way of

Life”, Rosario, Argentina, May 2010

“The Social Economy: a niche in capitalism or a pathway beyond?” National University of San Martin. May 2010

“Reflections on Interrogating Inequality”,

Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2010

Bogota International Book Fair, Bogota, Colombia, August 2010


“Envisioning Real Utopias,”

University of Rosario, Argentina May 2010

Center for Advanced Studies, University of Cordoba, Argentina, May 2010

International Sociological Association, Gothenburg, Sweden, July, 2010

“The Social Economy: a niche in capitalism or a pathway beyond”

Analytical Marxism conference, Oxford, June, 2010

“Overcoming exclusion or overcoming inequality?” International Sociological Association, Gothenburg, Sweden, July, 2010

“Worker Cooperatives: a niche in capitalism or pathway beyond”

Catalan Sociological Association, Barcelona, July, 2010

“Deepening Democracy,” University of Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, August 2010


Keynote address, Philosophy of Education Conference, St. Louis, February, 2011

Department of Sociology, Princeton University, February 2011

Department of Sociology , University of Pennsylvania, March 2011

Keynote address, Inauguration of the Global Futures Center, University of Illinois, March 2011

Keynote address, Southern Sociological Society annual meetings, Jacksonville, March 2011

Keynote Address, conference on Social Justice and the University, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 2011

Historical Materialism conference, New York, May 2011

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, May 2011

Department of Sociology, University of Sydney, June 2011

Mondragon bookstore and grocery cooperative, Winnipeg, Canada, July 2011

“Race and Real Utopias: A Conversation between Erik Olin Wright and Kimberle Crenshaw”, Department of Sociology, UCLA,

April 2011

“The Social economy as Real Utopia,” Stanford University center of Philanthropy and Civil Society, April 2011

“Power and real utopia,” Political Theory Seminar, Stanford University, April 2011

“A framework for studying real utopias,” symposium of Envisioning Real Utopias, department of sociology, U.C. Berkeley,

April 2011

“The Wisconsin Uprising,”

Rosa Luxemburg Center, Berlin, May 2011

United States Study Center, University of Sydney, June 2011

Nicos Poulantzas Institute, Athens, Greece, December 2011

“Workers Cooperatives: a niche in capitalism or a pathway beyond?”

Association of Cooperative Educators annual meeting, keynote address, Winnipeg, Canada, July 2011

Reply to critics”, symposium on Envisioning Real Utopias, American Political Science Association, Seattle, September 2011

“Envisioning Real Utopias”, “The Wisconsin Uprising”, and “Class Struggle and the Financial Crisis”

Nicos Poulantzas Institute, Athens, Greece, December, 2011

“Direct Democracy and Real Utopias: reflections on the Port Huron Statement fifty years later”, conference on the fiftieth

anniversary of the Port Huron Statement, Santa Barbara, February 2012


“Talks on Real Utopias: ASA presidential campus tour”

Philander Smith College, Little Rock, October 2012

Gallaudet University, February 2012

University of Texas-Pan American, Macallum, Texas, March 2012

University of Texas-San Antonio, March 2012

Texas A&M University International, Laredo, Texas, March 2012

Diné College, Navajo Nation, Tsaile, Arizona. March 2012

Alcorn State Univesity, Mississippi, April 2012

Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, April 2012

Xavier College, New Orleans Louisiana, April 2012

Tuskegee University, Alabama, April 2012

Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, April 2012

Austin Peay University, Tennessee, April 2012

Berea College, Kentucky, April 2012

“Participatory Budgets as a Real Utopia”,

National Participatory Budget Project Conference, New York, March 2012

“Basic Income as the cornerstone of a Cooperative Market Economy,”

North American Basic Income Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 2012

“Transforming Capitalism through Real Utopias”

Balliol College, Oxford, May, 2012

London School of Economics, Miliband Lecture, May 2012

University of Amsterdam, May 2012

Lecture sponsored by the Socialist People’s Party, Danish Parliament, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2012

Keynote address, Canadian Political Science Association meeting, June 2012

Keynote Address, ClassCritsV conference, Madison, Wisconsin, October 2012

SPEED-DATING MASTER CLASSES (incomplete list)

Sociology Department, Princeton, February 2011

Sociology Department, UCLA, April 2011

Sociology Department, Penn State University, April 2012

Sociology Department, Vanderbilt University, April, 2012

Sociology Department, University of Amsterdam, May 2012

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Member of the editorial board of Politics and Society, Fall 1976-

Coordinating Editor, Politics and Society, 1978-198l, 1988-

Member of the editorial board of Kapitalistate, 1973-76

Member of the board of directors of the Insurgent Sociologist, 1976-1978

Member of the International Editorial Board, En Teoria, 1978-

Member of the International Editorial Board, Stato e Marcato, 1980-

Director, A. E. Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change, University of Wisconsin, 1983-

President of the American Sociological Association, 2011-2012

Member of ASA Council, 2010-2013

DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED

2012

Oriol Mirosa (co-advisor with Gay Seidman), “The Global Water Regime: water’s transformation from right to commodity in South

Africa and Bolivia”


Matias Scaglione, The Evolution of Wage Differences in the United States, 1979-1999: A New Methodological Approach and New

Empirical Findings”

Todd Van Gunten, Power and Pesos: Bureaucracy, Expertise and the Politics of Money in Mexico and Argentina”

2010

Keedon Kwon, “Manufacturing the Animal Laborans: Moral Campaigns for Economic Development in Japan and Korea

Kate McCoy, “Ready, Aim, Hire: The Political and Social Implications of Military Outsourcing”

Fabian Pfeffer (co-advisor with Bob Hauser) “Intergenerational Wealth Effects in the United States and Germany”

2009

Pablo Mitnik, “Low-wage work and mobility policies in the United States: a structuralist-regulationist analysis”

Pil Ho Kim, “From Development to Welfare? The State and Welfare Capitalism in Japan and South Korea

Matt Dimmick, “Labor Law and Union Democracy: A US-British Comparison”

2007

Amy Lang, “A New Tool for Democracy? Citizen Deliberation in the British Columbia Citizen’s Assembly on Electoral Reform”

Cesar Rodriguez, “Sewing Resistance: Global Production, Transnational Organizing, And Global Governance in The Us-Caribbean

Basin Apparel Industry (1990-2005)”

Matt Vidal (co-chair), “Lean Enough: Factory Relations of Production under Neoliberal Globalization”

Erin Hatton, “The Temp Industry and the Transformation of Work in America”

2005

Robert Mackin, “The Movement that Fell from the Sky? Secularization and the Structuring of Progressive Catholicism in Latin

America, 1920s-1970s”

2003

Liba Brent, “Financial Industrial Groups in the Russian Transition to a Market Economy”

Rachel Dwyer, “Changing Tastes, Changing Fates: The Social Stratification of New House Buyers and the Concentration of Affluence

in America, 1960-2000

Josh Whitford (co-supervised), “After the Outsourcing: Networks, Institutions, and the New Old Economy”

Greta Krippner, “The Fiancialization of the American Economy” (winner: ASA dissertation of the year award)

Meera Seghal, “Women in the Hindu Fundamentalist Movement”

2002

Chung-Hsien Huang, “The Trajectory of Taiwanese Capitalism: a regulationist approach”

Devah Pager, “The Mark of a Criminal Record” (winner: ASA dissertation of the year award)

2001

Gianpaolo Baiocchi, “Civil Society and Participatory Democracy in Porto Alegre Brazil”

2000

Kathrina Zippel, “A Comparison of Sexual Harassment Law in the United States and Germany”

Stuart Eimer, “The Demise of Central Labor Councils in the US Labor Movement”

Seung-Chol Choi, “Regulating Telecommunications”

1999

Vivek Chibber, “Locked in Place: the failure of Industrial Planning in India”

David Bartram, “The Politics of International Labor Migration”

Stephanie Luce, “The Living Wage Campaign: a comparative study of three cities”

1998

Richard Anderson-Connolley, “A Comparative Study of Deindustrialization in Milwaukee and St. Paul”


Jose Padin, “Regimes of Accumulation in Peurto Rican Development”

1997 Sungkyun Lee, “The Development of the Welfare State in South Korea and Taiwan”

Richard Anderson-Connolly, “Urban Policy and the Locational Decisions of Small Firms”

1996 Joohee Lee, “Microcorporatist Class Compromise and Democratic Stability: the South Korean Case”

1993

Maureen Dolan, “Gender, Militarism and the State in Nicaragua: the emergence of feminism in a political culture of violence”

Raka Ray, “A Comparative Study of the Women's Movements in Bombay and Calcutta”

Lisa Brush, “Worthy Widows, Welfare Cheats: constructing single mothers, constructing the welfare state in the U.S., 1900-1988"

1992 Donmoon Cho, “Trade Unions and Class Formation in South Korea and Mexico”

1991 Ran Greenstein, “Class, Nation and State in the development of Israel and South Africa”

1990

Julia Adams, “The Epochal Zig-Zag: the rise and fall of merchant companies in early modern Eruope”

Dorothy Watson, “Interests, Networks and Class Consciousness”

Karen Shire, “Trade Unions and the Reorganization of Work in the Austrian and German Auto-Industry” (jointly supervised with

Wolfgange Streeck)

1989

Maria Zadoroznyj, “Patterns of Collective Mobility of Nurses”

1988 Heidi Gottfried, “Inside the Brotherhood: gender relations and worker capacities in the US and Sweden”

Kwang-Yoeng Shin, “Class, Politics of Production and Economic Inequality: a comparative analysis of the US, Sweden and Japan”

1987 Carolyn Howe, “Class Structure and Class Formation in Contemporary Capitalism: the problem of Knowledge Controllers”

George Steinmetz, “Social Policy and the Local State: a study of municipal welfare programs and social democracy in Germany,

1971-1914”

Pre-1986

Andrew Szasz, Cynthia Costello, Maria Cynthia Bautista, Robin Stryker, David Hachen

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