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Citations
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3969
National Ranking
1884

Overview

Nik Theodore is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily addresses issues within the fields of Health Professions and Social Sciences, with a focus on topics related to Employment and Welfare Studies, Digital Economy and Work Transformation, Labor Movements and Unions, Workplace Health and Well-being, Occupational Health and Safety Research, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, and Migration and Labor Dynamics.

They have contributed to several peer-reviewed publications, including the following papers:

  • Beyond Occupational Hazards: Abuse of Day Laborers and Health, 2020, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
  • A Forum on Emerging Technologies, 2022, Industrial and Labor Relations Review
  • A Novel Use of Latent Class Analysis to Identify Patterns of Workplace Hazards among Informally Employed Domestic Workers in 14 Cities, United States, 2011-2012, 2022, Annals of Work Exposures and Health
  • Informal Tyre Dealers in South Africa: an Assessment of Their Contributions to a Circular Economy, 2023, Urban Forum
  • Day Laborers in the Eye of the Storm, 2020, NACLA Report on the Americas

Their frequent co-authors include Beth Gutelius, Emily Wright, Jarvis T. Chen, Jason Beckfield, and Nancy Krieger. This collaborative work reflects interactions across topics relevant to workplace conditions, social labor dynamics, and health research.

The scientific venues where Nik Theodore publishes include:

  • Industrial and Labor Relations Review
  • Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
  • Urban Forum
  • Annals of Work Exposures and Health
  • American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Their subfields of study encompass General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Public Administration, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, and Strategy and Management. This indicates an interdisciplinary approach bridging health sciences and social science methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”

    Neil Brenner;Nik Theodore

  • Variegated neoliberalization: geographies, modalities, pathways

    Neil Brenner;Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore

  • Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe

    Neil Brenner;Nik Theodore

  • Mobilizing policy: Models, methods, and mutations

    Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore

  • Neoliberal Urbanism: Models, Moments, Mutations

    Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore;Neil Brenner

  • Postneoliberalism and its Malcontents

    Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore;Neil Brenner

  • Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism

    Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore

  • Neoliberalism and the urban condition

    Neil Brenner;Nik Theodore

  • Variegated capitalism

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  • Follow the Policy: A Distended Case Approach:

    Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore

  • Preface: From the “New Localism” to the Spaces of Neoliberalism

    Neil Brenner;Nik Theodore

  • Neoliberal Urbanism Redux

    Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore;Neil Brenner

  • Exporting workfare/importing welfare-to-work: exploring the politics of Third Way policy transfer

    Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore

  • Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America's Cities

    Annette Bernhardt;Ruth Milkman;Nik Theodore;Douglas D. Heckathorn

  • Neoliberalism Resurgent? Market Rule after the Great Recession

    Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore;Neil Brenner

  • After Neoliberalization?

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  • Contingent Chicago: Restructuring the Spaces of Temporary Labor

    Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore

  • THE BUSINESS OF CONTINGENT WORK: GROWTH AND RESTRUCTURING IN CHICAGO'S TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT INDUSTRY

    Jamie Peck;Nikolas Theodore

  • Still Neoliberalism?

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  • Recombinant workfare, across the Americas: Transnationalizing “fast” social policy

    Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore

  • Reanimating neoliberalism: process geographies of neoliberalisation

    Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore

  • Constructing markets for temporary labour: employment liberalization and the internationalization of the staffing industry

    Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore;Kevin Ward

  • Flexible recession: the temporary staffing industry and mediated work in the United States.

    Jamie Peck;Nick Theodore

  • Urbanismo neoliberal: La ciudad y el imperio de los mercados

    Neil Brenner;Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore

Frequent Co-Authors

Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck University of British Columbia
Neil Brenner
Neil Brenner University of Chicago
Douglas D. Heckathorn
Douglas D. Heckathorn Cornell University
Ruth Milkman
Ruth Milkman The Graduate Center, CUNY
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Eugene McCann
Eugene McCann Simon Fraser University
Michael A. Rodriguez
Michael A. Rodriguez University of California, Los Angeles
Wendy Larner
Wendy Larner Victoria University of Wellington
Paul Chatterton
Paul Chatterton University of Leeds

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