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53
Citations
35734
World Ranking
2210
National Ranking
1063

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award, American Sociological Association

Overview

Michael Burawoy is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans social sciences, with a notable focus on sociology and political science, accounting for most of their publications. Their work intersects several subfields including education, political science and international relations, organizational behavior and human resource management, and urban studies.

Burawoy has contributed to a range of topics within contemporary sociological theory and practice, social and cultural dynamics, Jewish and Middle Eastern studies, race, history, and American society, management and organizational studies, political economy and Marxism, and Middle East politics and society.

Their recent papers include:

  • Decolonizing Sociology: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois, 2021, Critical Sociology
  • Why is classical theory classical? Theorizing the canon and canonizing Du Bois, 2021, Journal of Classical Sociology
  • A Tale of Two Marxisms: Remembering Erik Olin Wright (1947-2019), 2020, Politics & Society
  • Introduction: Laboring in the Extractive University, 2023, Work and Occupations
  • Walking on Two Legs: Black Marxism and the Sociological Canon, 2022, Critical Sociology

Frequent coauthors in their work include Abigail Andrews, Margaret Eby, Thomas Gepts, Justin Germain, and Natalie Pasquinelli.

Burawoy's publications appear most often in the journal Critical Sociology, where they have published four papers. Other frequent venues include Revista CS, Journal of Classical Sociology, Work and Occupations, and Politics & Society.

In addition to journal articles, Burawoy has authored books, including Armenia after 2018, published by Peter Lang in 2024.

They have received recognition for contributions to teaching, including the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award from the American Sociological Association in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism

    Michael Burawoy

  • The extended case method

    Michael Burawoy

  • The Politics of Production

    Michael Burawoy

  • For Public Sociology

    Michael Burawoy

  • Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World

    Michael Burawoy;Joseph A. Blum;Sheba George;Zsuzsa Gille

  • Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis

    Michael Burawoy

  • Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World

    Michael Burawoy;Katherine Verdery

  • The Functions and Reproduction of Migrant Labor: Comparative Material from Southern Africa and the United States

    Michael Burawoy

  • The Politics of Production: Factory Regimes Under Capitalism and Socialism

    Michael Burawoy

  • Revisits: An outline of a theory of reflexive ethnography

    Michael Burawoy

  • For a Sociological Marxism: The Complementary Convergence of Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi

    Michael Burawoy

  • The Extended Case Method: Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformations, and One Theoretical Tradition

    Michael Burawoy

  • Public Sociologies: Contradictions, Dilemmas, and Possibilities

    Michael Burawoy

  • The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism

    Michael Burawoy;János Lukács

  • 2004 American Sociological Association Presidential address: For public sociology*

    Michael Burawoy

  • Between the Labor Process and the State: The Changing Face of Factory Regimes Under Advanced Capitalism

    Michael Burawoy

  • THE SOVIET TRANSITION FROM SOCIALISM TO CAPITALISM: WORKER CONTROL AND ECONOMIC BARGAINING IN THE WOOD INDUSTRY*

    Michael Burawoy;Pavel Krotov

  • Polanyi Symposium: a conversation on embeddedness

    Greta Krippner;Mark Granovetter;Fred Block;Nicole Biggart

  • From Polanyi to Pollyanna: The False Optimism of Global Labor Studies

    Michael Burawoy

  • The State and Economic Involution: Russia Through a China Lens

    Michael Burawoy

  • Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism.

    Paul Osterman;Michael Burawoy

  • For Public Sociology

    Michael Burawoy;Heinz Bude

Frequent Co-Authors

Juliet B. Schor
Juliet B. Schor Boston College
Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen Columbia University
Ruth Milkman
Ruth Milkman The Graduate Center, CUNY
Neil J. Smelser
Neil J. Smelser University of California, Berkeley
John Scott
John Scott Queensland University of Technology
Craig Calhoun
Craig Calhoun Arizona State University
Michael W. Macy
Michael W. Macy Cornell University
Jon Elster
Jon Elster Columbia University
Naomi Gerstel
Naomi Gerstel University of Massachusetts Amherst

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