Matt Vidal

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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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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