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Erik Olin Wright

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#120

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PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Erik Olin Wright was an American analytical Marxist sociologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, specializing in social stratification and in egalitarian alternative futures to capitalism. He was known for diverging from classical Marxism in his breakdown of the working class into subgroups of diversely held power and therefore varying degrees of class consciousness. Wright introduced novel concepts to adapt to this change of perspective including deep democracy and interstitial revolution.

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Deepening Democracy: Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance (2001) (1480)
Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance (2003) (1071)
Envisioning Real Utopias (2010) (950)
Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis (1996) (788)
Working-Class Power, Capitalist-Class Interests, and Class Compromise (2000) (717)
Class, Crisis and the State (1978) (583)
The American Class Structure (1957) (491)
Class Structure and Income Determination (1981) (395)
Marxist Class Categories and Income Inequality (1977) (390)
The Gender Gap in Workplace Authority: A Cross-National Study. (1995) (317)
Class Boundaries in Advanced Capitalist Societies (1976) (228)
THE GLASS CEILING HYPOTHESIS (2000) (226)
The patterns of job expansions in the USA: a comparison of the 1960s and 1990s (2003) (220)
The Fall and Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie: Changing Patterns of Self-Employment in the Postwar United States (1989) (217)
The debate on Classes (1991) (213)
Thinking about Empowered Participatory Governance (2005) (195)
Transforming Capitalism through Real Utopias (2013) (189)
Recent Developments in Marxist Theories of the Capitalist State, Part I (1975) (162)
Towards a Post-Marxist Radical Social Theory@@@Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the Contradictions of Modern Social Thought. (1987) (149)
Race, Class, and Income Inequality (1978) (144)
Varieties of Marxist Conceptions of Class Structure (1980) (139)
Gender equality : transforming family divisions of labor (2009) (137)
Understanding Class. Towards an Integrated Analytical Approach (2009) (135)
Class and occupation (1980) (131)
Approaches to Class Analysis (2005) (117)
Class, Exploitation and Economic Rents: Reflections on Sørensen's " toward a Sounder Basis for Class Analysis " (2000) (112)
THE SHADOW OF EXPLOITATION IN WEBER'S CLASS ANALYSIS (2002) (106)
Interrogating Inequality: Essays on Class Analysis, Socialism and Marxism (1994) (104)
A General Framework for the Analysis of Class Structure (1984) (95)
The Transformation of the American Class Structure, 1960-1980 (1987) (89)
What is Analytical Marxism (2007) (87)
The continuing relevance of class analysis — comments (1996) (82)
The Permeability of Class Boundaries to Intergenerational Mobility Among Men in the United-States, Canada, Norway, and Sweden (vol 59, Pg 624, 1994) (1994) (81)
Foundations of a neo-Marxist class analysis (2019) (78)
The Relative Permeability of Class Boundaries to Cross-Class Friendships: A Comparative Study of the United States, Canada, Sweden, and Norway (1992) (77)
Positional Power, Strikes and Wages (1984) (75)
Class, Exploitation, and Economic Rents: Reflections on Sørensen's “Sounder Basis”1 (2000) (75)
The Comparative Project on Class Structure and Class Consciousness: An Overview (1989) (74)
Approaches to Class Analysis: Frontmatter (2005) (71)
Coercion and Consent in Contested Exchange (1990) (69)
Compass points. Towards a Socialist Alternative (2006) (68)
Proletarianization in the Changing American Class Structure (1982) (66)
Women in the Class Structure (1989) (64)
Recasting Egalitarianism: New Rules for Communities, States and Markets (2000) (62)
The Class Analysis of Poverty (1995) (61)
American Society: How It Really Works (2010) (59)
Basic Income, Stakeholder Grants, and Class Analysis (2004) (57)
Redesigning Distribution: basic income and stakeholder grants as alternative cornerstones for a more egalitarian capitalism (2006) (57)
Reconstructing Marxism: Essays on Explanation and the Theory of History (1992) (56)
Rationality and Class Struggle (1980) (56)
Foundations of a post-class analysis (2005) (55)
Is the Precariat a Class (2016) (49)
THE NON-EFFECTS OF CLASS ON THE GENDER DIVISION OF LABOR IN THE HOME: (1992) (48)
Alternative Perspectives in Marxist Theory of Accumulation and Crisis (1975) (46)
Class Counts: The gender gap in workplace authority (2000) (37)
The Status of the Political in the Concept of Class Structure (1982) (37)
Class Counts Student Edition (2000) (37)
Interrogating the Treadmill of Production (2004) (34)
The Patterns of Job Expansions in the United States , a comparison of the 1960 s and 1990 s (2002) (33)
Guidelines for envisioning real utopias (2007) (32)
DEEPENING DEMOCRACY (2021) (32)
DEEPENING DEMOCRACY (2021) (32)
Reducing Income and Wealth Inequality: Real Utopian Proposals (2000) (31)
Approaches to Class Analysis: Conclusion: If “class” is the answer, what is the question? (2005) (31)
THE GLASS CEILING HYPOTHESIS (2000) (31)
Temporality and class analysis: A comparative study of the effects of class trajectory and class structure on class consciousness in sweden and the united states (1988) (30)
Beneficial Constraints: Beneficial for Whom? (2004) (28)
Sociological Marxism (2000) (28)
Legislature by Lot: Envisioning Sortition within a Bicameral System* (2018) (28)
Classes in the United States and Sweden : A Comparison (1983) (25)
Metatheoretical Foundations of Charles Tilly's Durable Inequality (2000) (25)
Equal Shares: Making Market Socialism Work (1996) (25)
Explanation and Emancipation in Marxism and Feminism (1993) (25)
How to Be an Anti-Capitalist for the 21st Century (2016) (24)
MARXISM AND METHODOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALISM (2003) (24)
Class and Inequality in Piketty (2015) (21)
Typologies, scales, and class analysis: a comment on Halaby and Weakliem's ownership and authority in the earnings function' (1993) (20)
Class Boundaries and Contradictory Class Locations (1982) (20)
Class Analysis, History, and Emancipation (2008) (19)
Intellectuals and the Working Class (1978) (18)
Approaches to Class Analysis: Introduction (2005) (18)
Basic Income as a Socialist Project (2005) (17)
Exploitation, Identity, and Class Structure: A Reply to My Critics (1988) (17)
Class Counts: Structural analyses of classes (2000) (17)
Two redistributive proposals—universal basic income and stakeholder grants (2006) (17)
The Politics of Punishment: A Critical Analysis of Prisons in America (1973) (16)
Mediation of protection and recovery from experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis by macrophages expressing the human voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.5. (2013) (15)
Low-Wage Job Growth, Polarization, and the Limits and Opportunities of the Service Economy (2019) (15)
Falling Into Marxism, Choosing to Stay (1991) (14)
Reply to Linder and Houghton (1990) (14)
CHAPTER I. Rethinking, Once Again, the Concept of Class Structure (2019) (14)
Alternative Foundations of Class Analysis (2002) (13)
State Employment, Class Location, and Ideological Orientation: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Sweden (1992) (13)
The Continuing Relevance of the Marxist Tradition for Transcending Capitalism (2018) (12)
Review of Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy (1996) (12)
Class structure and income inequality (1988) (11)
Taking the social in socialism seriously (2012) (11)
Social theory of modern societies: Models of historical trajectory: an assessment of Giddens's critique of Marxism (1989) (10)
Reflections on Classes (1987) (10)
The continuing importance of class analysis (2009) (10)
A Study of Student Leaves of Absence. (1973) (10)
Epithelial V-Like Antigen Mediates Efficacy of Anti-Alpha4 Integrin Treatment in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis (2013) (10)
An Interview with Erik Olin Wright (2001) (9)
Job Growth and Job Polarization in the United States and Europe, 1995–2007 (2012) (9)
Political Power, Democracy, and Coupon Socialism (1994) (8)
Why something like socialism is necessary for the transition to something like communism (1986) (8)
Sociological limitations of the climate change encyclical (2015) (8)
Class Counts: Index (2000) (8)
On Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias, London and New York, NY, Verso, 2010 (2012) (7)
Legislature by Lot (2019) (7)
How to be an Anti-capitalist for the 21 st Century (2017) (7)
The Multiple Directions of Social Progress: Ways Forward (2018) (6)
In defense of genderlessness (2011) (6)
Transforming Capitalism through Real Utopias (2013) (6)
Is Marxism Really Functionalist, Class Reductionist, and Teleological? (1983) (6)
Eroding Capitalism: A Comment on Stuart White's ‘Basic Capital in the Egalitarian Toolkit’ (2015) (6)
The ‘ triadic ’ model of society in Somers ’ Genealogies of Citizenship (2011) (6)
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century (2020) (5)
Complex Egalitarianism: A Review of Alex Callinicos 'Equality' (2001) (5)
Class, Exploitation, and Economic Rents: Reflections on Sorenson's "Sounder Basis" Erik Olin Wright (2000) (5)
The American Jobs Machine (2000) (5)
Class Struggle and Class Compromise in the Era of Stagnation and Crisis (2012) (5)
Postscript to Gastil and Wright: The Anticapitalist Argument for Sortition* (2018) (4)
Engaging Emancipatory Social Science and Social Theory: A Symposium on Erik Olin Wright's Envisioning Real Utopias (2012) (3)
Arguing about justice (2013) (3)
On Alex Callinicos's Equality (2002) (3)
Local Democracy under Siege by Dorothy Holland, et al. (2010) (3)
Alternatives to capitalism (2014) (3)
The Class Analysis of Poverty: A Response to Tony Novak (1996) (3)
Class Counts: The permeability of class boundaries (2000) (2)
Introductory Comments to “Alternative Perspectives in Marxist Theory of Accumulation and Crisis” (1999) (2)
Classes, Swedes and Yanks@@@Classes. (1986) (2)
A Sociology of Real Utopias (2014) (2)
Marxism in Contemporary Sociology (2001) (2)
The Conceptual Status of Class Structure in Class Analysis (2019) (2)
American society: How it really works / Erik Olin Wright and Joel Rogers (2011) (2)
Real Utopias and the University: An Interview (2014) (2)
Real Utopian Proposals for reducing Income and wealth Inequality (2000) (2)
Class structure and income detern~ii~ation (2007) (2)
Socialism as Social Empowerment (2006) (2)
Explaining the Salaries of Managers@@@Class Structure and Income Determination. (1981) (2)
Reply to Comments on Envisioning Real Utopias (2012) (1)
FROM GRAND PARADIGM BATTLES TO PRAGMATIST REALISM : TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED CLASS ANALYSIS * (2009) (1)
The socialization of capitalism or the neoliberalization of socialism ? (2012) (1)
Equality, Community, and “Efficient Redistribution” (1996) (1)
Social Standing in America: New Dimensions of Class.Richard P. Coleman , Lee Rainwater , Kent A. McClelland (1980) (1)
A Proposal to Transform the House of Lords into a Citizens Assembly (2006) (1)
McIDAS-eXplorer: A Vehicle for Analysis of Solar System Data (1993) (1)
THE RESPONSE TO AUDITORY STIMULUS IN THE DEVELOPING RAT. (1963) (1)
The Intellectual Saga of Althusserian Marxism@@@The Rise and Fall of Structure Marxism: Althusser and His Influence. (1987) (1)
Class Counts: The transformation of the American class structure, 1960–1990 (2000) (1)
Real Utopias and Dilemmas of Institutional Transformation (2016) (1)
Alternative Perspectives in Marxist Theory of Accumulation and Crisis (1999) (1)
Margaret R. Somers Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness and the Right to Have Rights. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008 (2011) (1)
Discussion forum (2002) (0)
Obituary (2019) (0)
MARXIST CLASS CATEGORIES AND INCOME INEQUALITY 33 application of this operationalization in the study of income inequality (2007) (0)
Erik Olin Wright (2017) (0)
Errata for "Women in the Class Structure" (1989) (0)
Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin. Detroit: I Do Mind Dying. St. Martin's Press, 1975 (1976) (0)
Making Capital Socially Accountable: An Introduction to Robin Blackburn and Ewald Engelen (2006) (0)
Embodying Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21 st Century Lara Monticelli (2018) (0)
Introduction (2004) (0)
1 3 issues a year in 17 languages > Class Inequalities in China > Public and Private Universities in India > Introducing the New and Not (2018) (0)
Memos to Section Newsletters (0)
The Shape of Things to Come (2003) (0)
Book Notes (2011) (0)
Rethinking Socialism: Introduction (1994) (0)
La transformacion de la estructura de clases de los estados unidos de america, 1960-1980 (1988) (0)
Strategic Logics of Anti-capitalism (2018) (0)
McIDAS-eXplorer: A Software Environment for Analysis of Planetary Data (1994) (0)
Real Utopias in and beyond Capitalism: Taking the “Social” in Socialism Seriously. (0)
What They’re Reading (2012) (0)
Interview with Professor Erik Olin Wright: «When I Began My Work, My Fantasy Was That Marxism Would Once And For All Defeat Sociology» (translated by D. Krylov, G. Loginov) (2010) (0)
Analysis of the Total Number of Twists Resulting from Cutting Any Order Moebius Band with Any Number of Cuts (1964) (0)
Institutions Promoting Gender Egalitarian Families (2008) (0)
Class Counts: Class structure, class consciousness and class formation in Sweden, the United States and Japan (2000) (0)
Analytical Marxism.@@@Egalitarian Perspectives: Essays in Philosophical Economics.@@@Alien Politics: Marxist State Theory Retrieved.@@@Interrogating Inequality. (1995) (0)
The Moral Significance of Class. By Andrew Sayer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. viii+248. $75.00 (cloth); $29.99 (paper). (2007) (0)
David A. Gold, Clarence Y. H. Lo, and Erik Olin Wright. "Recent Developments in Marxist Theories of the Capitalist State." Monthly Review (October and November 1975) (1976) (0)
Marxist Theories of the Capitalist State (2019) (0)
Book Notes (2013) (0)
Introduction (1996) (0)
In this review, I argue that Erik Olin Wright’s Envisioning Real Utopias is necessary reading (0)
Falling into Marxist Sociology: Choosing to Stay (1991) (0)
Preface to the Special Issue* (2018) (0)
Meandering Reflections from the pathways to a cooperative market economy workshop held in Barcelona , March 26-27 , 2015 (2015) (0)
Class Counts: Preface to original edition (2000) (0)
Logics of Job Creation under Capitalism: [y un extra] (2012) (0)
Class Counts: The fall and rise of the American petty bourgeoisie (2000) (0)
The Search for Theory: Synthesis or Dissonance? (1983) (0)
Toward a More Coherent Structuralism@@@Class, Crisis, and the State (1979) (0)
9. The Shadow of Exploitation in Weber’s Class Analysis (2005) (0)
Class Counts: Class structure (2000) (0)
Class Counts: A general framework for studying class consciousness and class formation (2000) (0)
Reply to Burawoy's Comments on "Reflection on Classes" (1987) (0)
From Stratification to Class Analysis ( and back again ? ) (2006) (0)
Clean Air Act (2013) (0)
Marx, Karl 1973, Grundrisse, New York: Vintage. Roemer, John 1986,'" Rational Choice" Marxism: Some Issues of Method and Substance', in Analytical Marxism, edited by John Roemer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2002) (0)
Class Counts: Confirmations, surprises and theoretical reconstructions (2000) (0)
Martin Sklar's Theory of Capitalism and Socialism (2019) (0)
Class Counts: Preface to student edition (2000) (0)
Class Counts: The noneffects of class on the gendered division of labor in the home (2000) (0)
Excerpts from Class Counts (2020) (0)
Class Counts: Conceptualizing the interaction of class and gender (2000) (0)
BASIC INCOME AS A SOCIALIST PROJECT 1 (2005) (0)
The Challenge of the “ Social ” in Social Democracy (2005) (0)
On Genealogies of Citizenship by Margaret Somers (2011) (0)
The Labor Theory of Value and Class Analysis : A Reconsideration (0)
Class Counts: Individuals, families and class analysis (2000) (0)
Fundamentos de un análisis neo-marxista de la clase (2005) (0)
The Wisconsin Protests (2011) (0)
Democracy, Feminism, and Capitalism (2018) (0)
Class Counts: Class analysis (2000) (0)
Structural analyses of classes (2000) (0)
階級・危機・国家 (1986) (0)
Lucio Colletti. From Rousseau to Lenin. Monthly Review Press, 1972 (1976) (0)
Scientific Analysis and Display of Magellan Venus Data with McIDAS-eXplorer (1994) (0)
Remembering Erik Olin Wright (2019) (0)
Real Utopias and the University (2014) (0)
An interview with Erik Olin Wright: "When I Began My Work, My Fantasy Was That Marxism Would Once and for all Defeat Sociology…" (English Version) (2010) (0)
Class Counts: References (2000) (0)
Chapter 14. Radical Democracy as a Real Utopia (2015) (0)
Who Pays for the State? A Reply to Robert Chernomas and Ardeshir Sepehri (1997) (0)
Anti-VLA4-Mediated Inhibition of Humeral Autoimmunity in EAE: Dependence on Epithelial V-Like Antigen Expression (P05.165) (2013) (0)

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