Suggested Readings

Students planning to specialize in this area are encouraged to be familiar with the following books and articles, which are considered to be classic or exemplary works in the field. The specific content of their examination reading lists will partly depend on their specific research interests however. Students planning to take this field exam should consult with the committee to construct a full list of readings.

Classical Theory

Polanyi, Karl 1944. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Boston: Beacon Press.

Conrad M. Arensberg, and Harry W. Pearson (eds.) 1957 Trade and Market in the Early Empires, Chicago: Regnery.

Karl Marx, Capital, Volumes 1-3.

Max Weber, General Economic History, Economy and Society.

Economic Sociology, Globalization, & World Systems Theory

Braudel, Fernand. 1984. The Perspective of the World, Volume 3 of Civilization and Capitalism. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Bonacich, Edna and Richard P. Appelbaum 2000 Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Bunker, Stephen G. 1984. Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.

Immanuel Wallerstein, Modern World System, Volumes 1-3.

Saskia Sassen, The Global City.

Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale, Second Edition.

Alejandro Portes (ed.), The Economic Sociology of Immigration.

Fred Block, Post-industrial Possibilities.

Frederic Lane, Profits from Power.

Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital.

Daniel Bell, The Coming of Postindustrial Society.

Michael Burawoy, Manufacturing Consent, and The Politics of Production.

Giovanni Arrighi, 1994 The Long Twentieth Century. London: Verso.

Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly Silver 1999 Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Christopher Chase-Dunn 1998 Global Formation: Structures of the World-Economy. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, 2001 "World-Systems Theorizing" in Jonathan Turner (ed.) Handbook of Sociological Theory. New York: Plenum.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall 1997 Rise and Demise: Comparing World- Systems. Boulder, CO: Westview.

McMichael, Philip 1996 Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Pine Forge.

Robinson, William I. 1996 Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, U.S. Intervention and hegemony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

David Harvey, The Limits of Capital.

Robert Brenner, The Brenner Debate.

Hilton, Rodney (ed.) 1976 The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism. London: New Left Books. (Sweezy-Dobb debate)

Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Welfare State Development

Fred Block, The Vampire State.

Gosta Esping-Anderson, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism and Welfare States in Transition (edited volume)

Orloff, Ann, “Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: State Policies and Gender Relations in Comparative Perspective,” American Sociological Review.

Neubeck, Ken and Noel Cazenave, Welfare Racism.

Alexander Hicks, Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism.

Hicks, Alexander and Joya Misra, 1993, “Political Resources and the Growth of Welfare in Affluent Capitalist Democracies.” American Journal of Sociology. 99(3): 668-710.

Piven, Frances Fox and Richard A. Cloward, Regulating the Poor.

The Skocpol-Quadagno-Goldfield debate on the New Deal.

Claus Offe, Contradictions of the Welfare State.

G. William Domhoff 2002 Who Rules America?: Power and Politics. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

State Formation and Capitalism

Claus Offe, “Two Logics of Collective Action.”

Bob Jessop, State Theory: Putting the Capitalist State in Its Place

Evans, Peter B. 1995 Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation, Princeton, Princeton University Press.

Goldstein, Joshua, 1988,Long Cycles: Prosperity and War in the Modern Age, New Haven: Yale University Press.

Tilly, Charles 1990, Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1990. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell.

McNeill, William H. 1982, The Pursuit of Power, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Modelski, George and William R. Thompson, 1994, Leading Sectors and World Powers: The Coevolution of Global Economics and Politics. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press.

Domhoff, William, The Power Elite and the State.

C.W. Mills, The Power Elite.

Michael Mann, Sources of Social Power, Volumes 1-3.

Barrington Moore, The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

John Stephens and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Capitalist Development and Democracy

Social Movements & Revolutions

McAdam, Doug, 1999 [1982], Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970, Second Edition.

Piven, Frances Fox and Richard A. Cloward, 1979, Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How The Fail.

Tarrow, Sidney, 1994, Power in movement: Social movements, collective action, and politics.

Charles Tilly, From Mobilization to Revolution, The Contentious French, and Popular Contention in Great Britain

Markoff, John 1996, Waves of Democracy: Social Movements and Political Change. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Pine Forge Press.

Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions.

Goldstone, Jack A. 1994, Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Studies, Second Edition.

Jeffrey Paige, Agrarian Revolution

Scott, James, The Moral Economy of the Peasant; Weapons of the Weak

Eric Wolf, Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century

McAdam, McCarthy, and Zald, Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements.