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
^ 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 .
^ Vidal, Matt (April 2007). "Manufacturing empowerment?" . Socio-Economic Review . 5 (2): 197– 232. doi :10.1093/ser/mwl005 . Retrieved 16 November 2020 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ "Incoherence and dysfunctionality in the institutional regulation of capitalism" . Retrieved 16 November 2020 .
^ Vidal, Matt (January 2017). "Lean enough" . Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World . 3 . doi :10.1177/2378023117736949 . S2CID 73618923 .
^ "Fordism and the Golden Age of Atlantic Capitalism" . Retrieved 16 November 2020 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ Vidal, Matt (14 April 2018). "Was Marx wrong about the working class?" . International Socialism . Retrieved 16 November 2020 .
^ "Contradictions of the labour process, worker empowerment and capitalist inefficiency" . Retrieved 16 November 2020 .
^ "Vidal & Kusnet, Organizing Prosperity" . Retrieved 16 November 2020 .
^ "Hauptmeier & Vidal, Comparative Political Economy of Work" . Retrieved 16 November 2020 .
^ 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 .