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Matt Vidal

Matt Vidal

British-American sociologist

Matt Vidal is a British-American sociologist. He is Reader in Sociology and Comparative Political Economy in the Institute for International Management, Loughborough University London.

Education

Vidal graduated from South Dakota State University and received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, a Research Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin, and a visiting researcher at the Department of Management, Paris Dauphine University, Paris, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne.

Contributions

Vidal has made contributions to many areas, including sociology of work, human resource management and employment relations;[1][2][3] labor markets;[4][5] institutional theory;[6][7][8] comparative political economy;[9][10] and Marxist theory.[11][12][13]

He is author of Organizing Prosperity (Economic Policy Institute)[14] and co-editor of Comparative Political Economy of Work (Palgrave)[15] and The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx (Oxford University Press).[16]

References

  1. [1]
    Vidal, Matt (January 2007). "Lean Production, Worker Empowerment, and Job Satisfaction". Critical Sociology. 33 (1–2): 247–278. doi:10.1163/156916307X168656. S2CID 145638359. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  2. [2]
    Vidal, Matt (April 2007). "Manufacturing empowerment?". Socio-Economic Review. 5 (2): 197–232. doi:10.1093/ser/mwl005. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  3. [3]
    Vidal, Matt; Tigges, Leann M. (2009). "Temporary Employment and Strategic Staffing in the Manufacturing Sector". Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society. 48: 55–72. doi:10.1111/j.1468-232X.2008.00545.x. S2CID 54041311. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  4. [4]
    Vidal, Matt (2013). "Low-Autonomy Work and Bad Jobs in Postfordist Capitalism". Human Relations. 66 (4): 587–612. doi:10.1177/0018726712471406. S2CID 59141104. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  5. [5]
    Vidal, Matt (November 2012). "On the Persistence of Labor Market Insecurity and Slow Growth in the US". New Political Economy. 17 (5): 543–564. doi:10.1080/13563467.2012.630459. S2CID 56229942. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  6. [6]
    Vidal, Matt; Peck, Jamie (2012). "Sociological Institutionalism and the Socially Constructed Economy". The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 594–611. doi:10.1002/9781118384497.ch38. ISBN 9781118384497. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  7. [7]
    "Incoherence and dysfunctionality in the institutional regulation of capitalism". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  8. [8]
    Vidal, Matt (January 2017). "Lean enough". Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 3. doi:10.1177/2378023117736949. S2CID 73618923.
  9. [9]
    "Fordism and the Golden Age of Atlantic Capitalism". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  10. [10]
    Vidal, Matt (June 2013). "Postfordism as a Dysfunctional Accumulation Regime". Work, Employment and Society. 27 (3): 451–471. doi:10.1177/0950017013481876. S2CID 55223929. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  11. [11]
    Vidal, Matt (10 September 2018). "Geriatric capitalism: Stagnation and crisis in western capitalism". In Vidal, Matt; Smith, Tony; Rotta, Tomás; Prew, Paul (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx. Oxford University Press. pp. 581–606. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190695545.013.34. ISBN 978-0-19-069554-5. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  12. [12]
    Vidal, Matt (14 April 2018). "Was Marx wrong about the working class?". International Socialism. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  13. [13]
    "Contradictions of the labour process, worker empowerment and capitalist inefficiency". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  14. [14]
    "Vidal & Kusnet, Organizing Prosperity". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  15. [15]
    "Hauptmeier & Vidal, Comparative Political Economy of Work". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  16. [16]
    Vidal, Matt; Smith, Tony; Rotta, Tomás; Prew, Paul, eds. (2018). "The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190695545.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-069554-5. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
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