Erik Olin Wright's last book was published at a time when socialist ideas had once again entered the mainstream of American politics.  In many ways, his recommendations for anti-capitalist strategy built upon his work of the past four decades, but in others, they were a departure from it.  In this talk I offer an appreciation and assessment of his argument.  I suggest that while Wright's argument was characteristically bracing, it represented a turn away from class analysis and, in so doing,

If it is by now clear that the police are militarized, the history, logics and operations of militarized policing remain elusive. This talk sheds some light through an historical sociology of militarized policing, beginning with the founding of the modern police in Britain in the nineteenth century and through the present in the United States. Modern policing as we know it was born in Britain and the United States as a “civil police,” meant as an alternative to the use of the military on home soil.

I provide an introduction to the recent theoretical and empirical research on employer labor market power and labor discipline in economics. Recent research in economics has suggested that employer market power is not an anomaly, but rather pervasive, and not due to labor market structure, but instead the nature of work as a commodity..

How are immigration policies reshaping Latino families? Drawing on two waves of interviews with undocumented young adults, Enriquez investigates how immigration status creeps into the most personal aspects of everyday life, intersecting with gender to constrain family formation.

Economic nationalism has returned to the fore of scholarly and policy debates. The concept took on renewed significance in the wake of the global financial crisis as countries sought to respond to the domestic effects of the economic disaster.