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by Gay W. Seidman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and member of ISA Research Committee on Labour Movements (RC44) Since Trump’s unexpected electoral victory, much ink has been spilt on the...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Leninist Right
by Cihan Tuğal, University of California, Berkeley, USA The victory of right-wing populism in America took half of the nation by surprise. If contextualized in a world-historical manner, however, it is...
View ArticleAmerican Brumaire?
by Dylan Riley, University of California, Berkeley, USA Does Trump’s victory mark a fundamental shift in US politics? Yes, but perhaps not in the way you might expect. Far from reflecting an incipient...
View ArticleTrump’s Assault on Labor
by Ruth Milkman, City University of New York, USA and member of ISA Research Committee on Labour Movements (RC44) Obituaries for the US labor movement were a well-worn staple of left-wing political...
View ArticleImmigration and Trump-Era Politics
by G. Cristina Mora, University of California, Berkeley, USA The run-up to November 2016 included much rhetoric about who made America great, and who would bring about its moral and economic downfall....
View ArticleTrumpism and the White Male Working Class
by Raka Ray, University of California, Berkeley, USA It has become commonplace in both media and scholarly writing to describe many of the people who voted for Trump, and who show up in large numbers...
View ArticleBehind Trump’s Rhetoric of Economic Nationalism
by Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley, USA and member of ISA Research Committees on Economy and Society (RC02), Futures Research (RC07), Labour Movements (RC44), Social Classes and Social...
View ArticleShaping The Great Transformation: A Conversation with Kari Polanyi Levitt
Karl Polanyi has become a canonical thinker in sociology and beyond. His book The Great Transformation, has become a classic that touches on almost every subfield of sociology. Its influence extends...
View ArticleEditorial: A Short History of Global Dialogue
Global Dialogue began in 2010 as an eight-page newsletter. It began in four languages – English, French, Spanish and Chinese – and was produced with a simple Microsoft program, involving the work of...
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