{"product_id":"engaging-erik-olin-wright-isbn-9781804294727","title":"Engaging Erik Olin Wright","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of essays exploring emancipatory social science, inspired by the work of pioneering sociologist Erik Olin Wright\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErik Olin Wright was one of the most brilliant and world renowned social scientists of our era. He left us in 2019 with an unfinished project - the articulation of class and utopia. Wright's sociological Marxism embarked from an original class analysis, with its trade-mark contradictory class locations, that empirically mapped class structures across the globe. In response to the collapse of communism and the rise of neoliberalism, Wright turned to the premise of class analysis, that is the possibility of socialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForsaking Marxism's allergy to utopian thinking, Wright searched the planet for institutions that might sow the seeds of socialism – such as cooperatives, participatory budgeting, basic income grants – institutions that might dissolve racial, gender, and class inequalities by eroding capitalism. His last book \u003ci\u003eHow to be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e, published posthumously in over a dozen languages has become a manifesto for a new world, bringing together and inspiring social movement activists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays in this volume pay tribute to his generative theory, his crystalline teaching and his personal warmth.  The authors – all close colleagues or former students – wrestle with the relationship between his two expanding research programs, class analysis and real utopias. They burn the candle from either end, all galvanized by Wright's genius and vision to reinvent Marxism.Introduction: Advancing Wright’s Unfinished Project\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Burawoy and Gay Seidman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE LIFE AND WORK OF ERIK WRIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Tale of Two Marxisms\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Burawoy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClass, Gender and Utopian Community\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGay Seidman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove and Marxism\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreta R. Krippner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWright’s Emancipatory Theory and Practice\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKwang-Yeong Shin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFROM REAL UTOPIAS TO CLASS ANALYSIS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf You’re a Socialist You Need the Real Utopias Project, whether You Like It or Not\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarry Brighouse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClass Counts for Real Utopias: The Implementation of Free Mass Transit in Seven Brazilian Cities\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoão Alexandre Peschanski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cooperative Market Economy: The Promise and Challenge of Mondragon\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarta Soler-Gallart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho Will Help Decommodify Housing? Race, Property, Class, and the Struggle for Social Housing in the United States\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eH. Jacob Carlson and Gianpaolo Baiocchi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Emancipation Network: Discovering Anticapitalist Institutions within Brazilian Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRuy Braga\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFROM CLASS ANALYSIS TO REAL UTOPIAS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Politics of Contradictory Class Locations: A View from India\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRina Agarwala\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Class Basis of Anticapitalism: Labor Politics in Contemporary Argentina\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRodolfo Elbert\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Class Analysis to Real Utopias and Back Again: Erik Olin Wright in Conversation with Left Populism\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Ramand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifteen Dollars and a Revolution: Building Anticapitalist Workers’ Movements\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephanie Luce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eGay Seidman\u003c\/b\u003e teaches sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where for many years, her office was next to Erik Wright’s. Her books include Manufacturing Militance and Beyond the Boycott.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Burawoy\u003c\/b\u003e teaches sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of several books including \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Production: Factory Regimes under Capitalism and Socialism \u003c\/i\u003eand most recently \u003ci\u003ePublic Sociology: Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e.  He was a close friend and literary executor of Erik Wright.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303907905765,"sku":"NP9781804294727","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781804294727.jpg?v=1767726280","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/engaging-erik-olin-wright-isbn-9781804294727","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}