Since the 1930s, industrial sociologists have tried to answer the question, Why do workers not wo...

The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change ...

From the Mellon Lectures, at Wits University, Johannesburg in 2010. Michael Burawoy constructs a ...

The current resurgence of Marxism is based on new sources of inspiration and creativity from move...

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Challenges the vanguardist Marxism characteristic in South Africa and beyond. Featuring leading t...

What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?Capitalism has transformed the world and ...

By highlighting the role of the Public Sociologist and the international conception of human righ...

Michael Burawoy has helped to reshape the theory and practice of sociology across the Western wor...

In Symbolic Violence Michael Burawoy brings Pierre Bourdieu into an extended debate with Marxism-...

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is the most influential sociologist of our time. His works take in ed...