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Michael Burawoy

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PhD Sociology University of Chicago
Masters Sociology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Burawoy is a sociologist working within Marxist social theory, best known as the leading proponent of public sociology and the author of Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism—a study on the sociology of industry that has been translated into a number of languages.

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The extended case method (1998) (1894)
Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism (1982) (1671)
For Public Sociology (2005) (1019)
Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis (1991) (825)
The Politics of Production (1985) (665)
The Extended Case Method* (1998) (455)
Revisits: An outline of a theory of reflexive ethnography (2003) (435)
The Politics of Production: Factory Regimes Under Capitalism and Socialism (1985) (406)
For a Sociological Marxism: The Complementary Convergence of Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi (2003) (384)
Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World (2000) (375)
2004 American Sociological Association Presidential address: for public sociology*. (2005) (367)
The Functions and Reproduction of Migrant Labor: Comparative Material from Southern Africa and the United States (1976) (302)
Public Sociologies: Contradictions, Dilemmas, and Possibilities (2004) (275)
THE SOVIET TRANSITION FROM SOCIALISM TO CAPITALISM: WORKER CONTROL AND ECONOMIC BARGAINING IN THE WOOD INDUSTRY* (1992) (251)
Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World (1999) (241)
Between the Labor Process and the State: The Changing Face of Factory Regimes Under Advanced Capitalism (1983) (240)
Polanyi Symposium: a conversation on embeddedness (2004) (213)
From Polanyi to Pollyanna: The False Optimism of Global Labor Studies (2010) (206)
Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism. (1982) (192)
The State and Economic Involution: Russia Through a China Lens (1996) (173)
Involution and Destitution in Capitalist Russia (2000) (171)
The Critical Turn to Public Sociology (2005) (164)
The Roots of Domination: Beyond Bourdieu and Gramsci (2012) (163)
Public Sociologies: A Symposium from Boston College (2004) (146)
Manufacturing the Global (2001) (146)
Toward a Marxist Theory of the Labor Process: Braverman and Beyond (1978) (127)
Two methods in search of science (1989) (122)
Transition without Transformation: Russia's Involutionary Road to Capitalism (2001) (118)
Neoclassical Sociology: From the End of Communism to the End of Classes1 (2001) (113)
Facing an unequal world (2015) (110)
The Anthropology of Industrial Work (1979) (104)
Marxism as Science: Historical Challenges and Theoretical Growth (1990) (99)
Conversations with Bourdieu: The Johannesburg Moment (2012) (75)
MYTHOLOGIES OF WORK: A COMPARISON OF FIRMS IN STATE SOCIALISM AND ADVANCED CAPITALISM* (1985) (70)
Coercion and Consent in Contested Exchange (1990) (69)
The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political Economy and Crisis. (1982) (69)
The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism (1992) (67)
Between Perestroika and privatisation: Divided strategies and political crisis in a Soviet enterprise (1992) (62)
The Great American University (2012) (57)
Ethnographic fallacies: reflections on labour studies in the era of market fundamentalism (2013) (55)
Response: Public sociology: populist fad or path to renewal? 1 (2005) (55)
Public sociology: South African dilemmas in a global context (2004) (55)
Critical Sociology: A Dialogue Between Two Sciences* (1998) (54)
Social Structure, Homogenization, and "The Process of Status Attainment in the United States and Great Britain" (1977) (54)
The End of Sovietoloy and the Renaissance of Modernization Theory@@@The Accidental Proletariat: Workers, Politics, and Crisis in Gorbachev's Russia.@@@Ko-ops: The Rebirth of Entrepreneurship in the Soviet Union.@@@Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era. (1992) (54)
Third-wave sociology and the end of pure science (2005) (53)
What is to be Done? (2008) (43)
Rejoinder: For a Subaltern Global Sociology? (2008) (39)
Facing an unequal world : challenges for a global sociology (2010) (39)
Open Letter to C. Wright Mills (2008) (39)
Open the social sciences: To whom and for what? (2008) (39)
Review Essay (1997) (39)
From Capitalism to Capitalism via Socialism: The Odyssey of a Marxist Ethnographer, 1975–1955 (1996) (37)
On Desmond: the limits of spontaneous sociology (2017) (36)
The Return of the Repressed: Recovering the Public Face of U.S. Sociology, One Hundred Years On (2005) (35)
Karl Marx and the Satanic Mills: Factory Politics Under Early Capitalism in England, the United States, and Russia (1984) (33)
The Hidden Abode of Underdevelopment: Labor Process and the State in Zambia (1982) (33)
The Public Turn (2008) (31)
Marxism after communism (2000) (30)
Sociology as a Vocation (2016) (29)
On Uncompromising Pessimism: Response to my Critics (2011) (29)
Sociological Marxism (2000) (28)
A Sociology for the Second Great Transformation (2000) (27)
Sociology as a vocation: Moral commitment and scientific imagination (2014) (27)
Introduction: Sociology as a combat sport (2014) (25)
Introduction: The Resurgence of Marxism in American Sociology (1982) (25)
The Promise of Sociology: Global Challenges for National Disciplines (2016) (25)
From liberation to reconstruction: Theory & practice in the life of Harold Wolpe (2004) (25)
The world needs public sociology (2004) (24)
The Global Turn (2009) (23)
The Future of Sociology (2007) (23)
Consciousness and Contradiction: A Study of Student Protest in Zambia (1976) (22)
Rejoinder: Toward a Critical Public Sociology (2005) (22)
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others (2005) (22)
Paradigm Busting and Vertical Linkage@@@Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis. (1993) (21)
Marxist Inquiries: Studies of Labor, Class, and States. (1984) (20)
Manufacturing Consent revisité (2012) (19)
Public sociology in the age of Obama1 (2009) (19)
Living Theory (2013) (19)
From Labor Process to Labor Movement (2008) (19)
The Public Turn: From Labor Process to Labor Movement (2008) (18)
The written and the repressed in Gouldner's industrial sociology (1982) (18)
Challenges for a Global Sociology (2009) (18)
Another Look at the Mineworker (1972) (18)
The Limits of Wright's Analytical Marxism and an Alternative (1987) (17)
Marxism without Micro-Foundations (1995) (17)
Southern windmill: the life and work of Edward Webster (2010) (17)
Forging Global Sociology from below (2010) (16)
The Last Positivist (2011) (16)
Reflections on the Class Consciousness of Hungarian Steelworkers (1989) (16)
MAKING SENSE OF BOURDIEU (2018) (15)
The Neoliberal University: Ascent of the Spiralists (2016) (15)
The Economic Basis of Russia ’ s Political Crisis (2003) (15)
Sociology as Public Discourse and Professional Practice : A Critique of (2007) (15)
Decolonizing Sociology: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois (2021) (15)
Combat in the dissertation zone (2005) (14)
Disciplinary Mosaic: The Case of Canadian Sociology (2009) (13)
Sociology and Interdisciplinarity : The Promise and the Perils (2013) (12)
The Colour of Class Revisited: Four Decades of Postcolonialism in Zambia (2014) (12)
Symbolic Violence: Conversations with Bourdieu (2019) (11)
A Public Sociology for California (2008) (11)
The Field of Sociology (2019) (11)
Donald Roy: Sociologist and Working Stiff@@@Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism (2001) (10)
Social Movements in the Neoliberal Age (2017) (10)
A TALE OF TWO MARXISMS (2020) (9)
Why Coupon Socialism Never Stood a Chance in Russia: The Political Conditions of Economic Transition (1994) (9)
From Max Weber to Public Sociology (2012) (8)
Working in the tracks of state socialism (2009) (8)
From "Manufacturing Consent" to "Global Ethnography:" A Retrospective Examination@@@Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism (2001) (7)
Lessons From Southern Labor Scholars and Their Labor Movements (2009) (7)
RUSSIAN MINERS BOW TO THE ANGEL OF HISTORY (1995) (7)
Overwork : Causes and consequences of rising work hours (2001) (7)
SOCIOLOGY AS A COMBAT SPORT (2012) (6)
Appendix: Global pedagogy in a digital age (2014) (6)
What might we mean by a pedagogy of public sociology? (2008) (6)
Public ethnography as film (2009) (6)
From earth to heaven: South African sociology in the international context (2009) (6)
A Tale of Two Marxisms: Remembering Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019)* (2020) (5)
How the Field Grows: Cases from Berkeley@@@Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis. (1993) (5)
Public sociology: Mills vs. Gramsci. Introduction to the italian translation of "For public sociology" (2007) (5)
Consent and Rational Choice@@@Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism (2001) (5)
THE GREAT INVOLUTION : RUSSIA ’ S RESPONSE TO THE MARKET 1 (2000) (5)
Making Nonsense of Marx@@@Making Sense of Marx. (1986) (5)
Why is classical theory classical? Theorizing the canon and canonizing Du Bois (2021) (5)
Constraint and manipulation in industrial conflict : a comparison of strikes among Zambian workers in a clothing factory and the mining industry (1974) (4)
Mythological Individualism — The Metaphysical Foundation of Analytical Marxism (1995) (4)
Meeting the Challenge of Global Sociology – from Gothenburg to Yokohama (2011) (4)
Redefining the Public University: analytical framework (2013) (4)
Conclusion. Provincializing the Social Sciences (2020) (4)
Colonialism and Revolution: Fanon Meets Bourdieu (2019) (4)
Public Sociology On A Global Scale (2007) (3)
Empiricism and Its Fallacies (2019) (3)
Continuing the public sociologies debate - replies to Michael Burawoy (2005) (3)
White Collar Revisited: A Commentary on Isler, Osnowitz, and Kenny (2007) (3)
Manufacturing the Ungendered Subject@@@Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism (2001) (3)
Personal Ironies of the San Francisco Meetings (2005) (3)
Making Public Sociology: Its Pitfalls and its Possibilities (2011) (3)
History Never Repeats Itself. (2009) (3)
Walking on Two Legs: Black Marxism and the Sociological Canon (2022) (3)
Marxisms in the 21st Century: Crisis, critique and struggle (2012) (3)
Public sociology vs . the market 1 (2007) (3)
Forty Years of Labor 12 (2015) (3)
Can “Public Sociology” Travel as far as Russia? (2009) (3)
Action research in the field of human rights (2015) (2)
Much Ado About Nothing? Remarks on Michael Burawoy’s Presidential Address (2007) (2)
Speaking to Publics (2019) (2)
Making nonsense of Marx [Le marxisme revu par l'individualisme méthodologique] (1989) (2)
What happened to the working class? Errors of an unrepentant Marxist (2002) (2)
Global Sociology, Live! (2007) (2)
Marxism and Sociology@@@Marxist Sociology.@@@Karl Marx: Economy, Class and Social Revolution.@@@Karl Marx on Society and Social Change.@@@Marx and Modern Social Theory. (1977) (2)
Book Review:Beyond Contract: Work, Power and Trust Relations. Alan Fox (1976) (2)
The State of US Sociology: From Crisis to Renewal (2022) (2)
Exchange: ‘Natural Sociologist’ Snags Asa Honor (2008) (2)
AFTERWORD:: RESOLVING POLANYI’S PARADOX (2019) (2)
Return to Fanon (2021) (2)
Marxism in Contemporary Sociology (2001) (2)
Marxist Inquiries: Studies of Labor, Class and States (1985) (2)
Introduction: From Manchester to Berkeley by Way of Chicago (2019) (1)
"Manufacturing Consent" Reexamined@@@Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism (2001) (1)
A Review of Symbolic Violence: Conversations With Bourdieu (2020) (1)
Dos métodos en pos de la ciencia: Skocpol versus Trotski (1997) (1)
Thirty Years of Making Out (2020) (1)
Factory Regimes in Comparative Perspective@@@The Politics of Production. (1986) (1)
Race, Class, and Succession: Reply to Magubane (1975) (1)
Burawoy's Legacy@@@Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism (2001) (1)
Social Movements Today (2012) (1)
Prologue: Bringing Theory to the Field (2019) (1)
RESEARCH ARTICLE Public sociology in the age of Obama 1 (2009) (1)
Painting Socialism: Working-Class Formation in Hungary and Poland (2019) (1)
"Manufacturing Consent" in the "New" Global Economy@@@Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism (2001) (1)
The Turn to Public Sociology: The Case of US Labour Studies (2007) (1)
Times of turmoil: emerging visions from three years of global dialogue (2015) (1)
The Other Michael Burawoy@@@Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism (2001) (1)
The Extended Case MethodRace and Class in Postcolonial Africa (2009) (1)
Living Sociology: On Being in the World One Studies (2021) (1)
The Modern Prince and the Sociological Imagination. Michael Burawoy in Conversation with Riccardo Emilio Chesta (2019) (0)
Strategies of Adaptation: A Soviet Enterprise Under Perestroika and Privatization (1991) (0)
PPublic SSociology (2009) (0)
CONTEMPORARY CURRENTS IN MARXIST THEORY (2016) (0)
3. Two Methods in Search of Revolution: Trotsky versus Skocpol (2019) (0)
Volume Information (1982) (0)
Publishing for Publics (2016) (0)
Facing an Inequal World-Challenges for aGlobal Sociology (2010) (0)
Introduction: The Resurgence of Marxism in (2016) (0)
Interview 19 Michael Burawoy (2020) (0)
EpilogueOn Public Ethnography (2009) (0)
Power, Violence and Justice: Re-envisioning The Great Transformation (2018) (0)
South Africa: Sociological Perspectives.Heribert Adam (1974) (0)
Conclusion: The Ethnography of Great Transformations (2019) (0)
2. The Ethnographic Revisit: Capitalism in Transition and Other Histories (2019) (0)
Symbolic Violence (2019) (0)
Résumés/Resúmenes (2008) (0)
The Poverty of Philosophy (2018) (0)
How Deep Is Domination? Beyond Bourdieu and Gramsci (2011) (0)
Presidential Plenary I: Facing an Unequal World (2014) (0)
On Desmond: the limits of spontaneous sociology (2017) (0)
2 3 issues a year in 17 languages > Right-Wing Populism from a Solidarity Perspective (2019) (0)
Presidential Plenary II: Alternatives to an Unequal World (2014) (0)
Buried in the rubble of communism (2010) (0)
CritiqueAndCrisisReconsidered (2010) (0)
Presidential Session: ISA at 65 - Looking Backwards and Forwards (2014) (0)
Afterword:: Third Wave Marketization (2018) (0)
THE TURN TO PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY: THE CASE OF U.S. LABOR STUDIES. 1 (2008) (0)
V: THE ANTINOMIES OF FEMINISM: (2008) (0)
Volume Information (1980) (0)
Sociology and the Public in the Discourse of Crisis (2017) (0)
Global and National Contexts (2018) (0)
Volume Information (1974) (0)
1 3 issues a year in multiple languages > Identifying Femicide Locally and Globally > Racism and Anti-Environmentalism in US Politics Open Section (2022) (0)
Relations industrielles Manufacturing Consent : Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism (0)
A Tale of Two Unorganizables . Commentary (2007) (0)
4. Multicase Ethnography: Tracking the Demise of State Socialism (2019) (0)
Going public with Polanyi in the era of Trump * (2021) (0)
About the Authors (2008) (0)
Global Dialogue – 4 Years On (2014) (0)
Itinéraire d’un sociologue global (2018) (0)
A New Sociology for Social Justice Movements (2019) (0)
A Pedagogy for the Global (2012) (0)
The future of socialism in Eastern Europe (1989) (0)
WE ARE LIVING IN A CAPITALIST WORLD (2018) (0)
Strategies of Adaptation (2020) (0)

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