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Charles Derber

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#1243

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#1421

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#478

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Charles Derber's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Charles Derber is an American Professor of Sociology at Boston College. His work focuses on the crises of capitalism, globalization, corporate power, neo-fascism, American militarism, the culture of hegemony, the climate crisis, and the new peace and global justice movements.

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Charles Derber's Published Works

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Published Works

Naming the Enemy : Anti-corporate movements confront globalization (2001) (245)
Public Sociologies: A Symposium from Boston College (2004) (146)
Professionals as Workers: Mental Labor in Advanced Capitalism. (1983) (135)
Phenomenology and Sociology. (1979) (128)
Managing professionals (1983) (105)
The Pursuit of Attention: Power and Individualism in Everyday Life (1979) (73)
Power in the Highest Degree: Professionals and the Rise of a New Mandarin Order (1990) (64)
Corporation Nation: How Corporations are Taking Over Our Lives -- and What We Can Do About It (1998) (48)
The Pursuit of Attention: Power and Ego in Everyday Life (1979) (39)
Toward a Theory of Worker Participation (1983) (35)
People before profit : the new globalization in an age of terror, big money, and economic crisis (2003) (31)
Unemployment and The Entitled Worker: Job-Entitlement and Radical Political Attitudes Among The Youthful Unemployed (1978) (24)
Sponsorship and the control of physicians (1983) (21)
Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States (2013) (20)
People Before Profit (2002) (16)
The Wilding of America: How Greed and Violence Are Eroding Our Nation's Character (1996) (14)
The Pursuit of Attention: Power and Individualism in Everyday Life. (1980) (10)
What's Left: Radical Politics in the Postcommunist Era (1995) (9)
New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America with Women's Values (2008) (8)
The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn't Matter--And What Does (1989) (6)
A five-year plan for research related to the assimilation of meteorological data (1999) (6)
Arms control: misplaced focus (1986) (5)
Ideological Proletarianization and Post-Industrial Labor (2016) (5)
Underemployment and the American Dream—“Underemployment-Consciousness” and Radicalism Among Young Workers (1979) (5)
Bully Nation: How the American Establishment Creates a Bullying Society (2016) (4)
Regime Change Begins at Home : Freeing America from Corporate Rule (2004) (4)
Marx's Ghost: Midnight Conversations on Changing the World (2011) (4)
Disinherited Majority: Capital Questions-Piketty and Beyond (2015) (3)
Introduction (2020) (3)
Saving Democracy (2018) (3)
If not socialism, what?* (1997) (2)
Capitalism: Should You Buy It?: An Invitation to Political Economy (2014) (1)
The Clouded Vision: The Student Movement in the United States in the 1960s.David L. WestbyMayday at Yale: A Case Study in Student Radicalism.John Taft (1978) (1)
Critique and Hope: The Moral Basis of Chomsky’s Political Economy (2017) (1)
Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes.By Nicholas Abercrombie and John Urry. Unwin & Allen, 1983. 169 pp. Cloth, $21.95; paper, $8.95 (1985) (1)
Surplus American: How the 1% Is Making Us Redundant (2012) (1)
Excite the Vote (2020) (0)
Turning Point: From Hegemony to Democracy (2007) (0)
The Mind of the Moralist@@@C. Wright Mills: An American Utopian. (1984) (0)
Identity, Intersectionality, and Universalizing Resistance (2020) (0)
Identity Politics and Class Politics (2020) (0)
The Second American Revolution (2010) (0)
The Nuclear Seduction (2023) (0)
Glorious Causes (2019) (0)
Glorious Causes: The Irrationality of Capitalism, War and Politics (2019) (0)
The Movement and Third Parties (2020) (0)
Activists and Evangelicals (2020) (0)
Activists, Movements, and Electoral Politics (2020) (0)
Hurricane Sandy, Climate Sociopathy, and the Infrastructure Crisis (2015) (0)
Selling Security for Honor and Profit (2018) (0)
Knowledge, Class, Status, and Profession@@@Power in the Highest Degree: Professionals and the Rise of a New Mandarin Order.@@@The Unfree Professions: German Lawyers, Teachers, and Engineers, 1900-1950.@@@Professions and the State: Expertise and Autonomy in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. (1991) (0)
Moving Beyond Fear (2018) (0)
How It All Got Started (2020) (0)
Conversational Narcissism and Sociopathic Talk (2015) (0)
Turnout! (2020) (0)
The Real Truth about the Great Recession of 2008— and the Secret of Capitalist Crises (2015) (0)
Newtown Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg (2015) (0)
Trump-ing Freedom for Protection (2018) (0)
From Hegemony to Democracy 1 (2015) (0)
The Coronavirus and Economic Crisis (2020) (0)
Weimar America? Lessons of the Elections (2016) (0)
Book reviews (2006) (0)
Worker education for a changing economy: New labor‐academic partnerships (1987) (0)
Weimar America (2019) (0)
Left Political Correctness: When Free Thinkers Become Dogmatists (2015) (0)
Volume Information (1968) (0)
American Empire and Its Moral Big Stick (with Yale Magrass) (2015) (0)
Sins of the Corporate Regime (2015) (0)
Enhanced Exploitation (2020) (0)
Introducing the Emergency Election (2020) (0)
Latino Voter Outreach that Mobilizes White Voters, Too (2020) (0)
Terrorism and the Movement (1971) (0)
PEACE OR WAR? EMPIRE, US FOREIGN POLICY, AND BUILDING A PEACEFUL WORLD (2011) (0)
Stabbed in the Back (2019) (0)
Making America Great Again (2019) (0)
America Becomes Exceptional But Europe Prospers (2019) (0)
Regime Change Begins at Home (2004) (0)
Activism and Fascism (2020) (0)
The New Denial of Death The Psychology of Pale Green (2015) (0)
The Sociological Theory of C. Wright Mills.Joseph A. Scimecca (1979) (0)
National service: the sixties meet the nineties (1993) (0)
What Does It Mean to Call McCain a “War Hero” Candidate? (with Yale Magrass) (2015) (0)
Hope Requires Fighting the Hope Industry (2015) (0)
Turnout! : Mobilizing Voters in an Emergency (2020) (0)
Stories of Global Activism (2020) (0)
Chomsky for Activists (2020) (0)
Activism in the Age of Extinction (2020) (0)
Noam Chomsky on Left Prospects (2021) (0)
The South Shall Rise Again (2019) (0)
Coming Together (2020) (0)
An Irrational Cultural Divide (2019) (0)
Nuclear scenarists: minds at war. (1989) (0)
Overcoming Isolation and Powerlessness (2020) (0)
B. Alternative Systems (2015) (0)
The hardware is not the problem (1989) (0)
From Capitalism to Fascism (2018) (0)
We Can’t Afford Glory (2019) (0)
The Upstairs/Downstairs House (2018) (0)
The Failings of the American Left (2018) (0)

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