Matt Vidal

Matt Vidal is an American-British sociologist. He is currently Reader in Sociology and Comparative Political Economy in the Institute for International Management, Loughborough University London. From 2008-2016 he was at King’s College London, starting as Lecturer and being promoted to Senior Lecturer and then Reader. He specializes in sociology of work and employment, comparative political economy, and Marxist theory.

Education and career

Vidal graduated from South Dakota State University (Magna Cum Laude), with a double major in Sociology (Exit Exam Honors) and Political Science. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007, where his supervisors were Erik Olin Wright and Joel Rogers. 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.

Vidal is author (with David Kusnet) of Organizing Prosperity (Economic Policy Institute).[1] and editor (with Marco Hauptmeier) of Comparative Political Economy of Work (Palgrave)[2] and (with Paul Prew, Tomas Rotta and Tony Smith) of The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx (Oxford University Press).[3] He has published more than 20 journal articles or book chapters in Contexts, Critical Sociology, Historical Materialism, Human Relations, Industrial Relations, International Socialism, New Political Economy, Organization Studies, Research in the Sociology of Work, Socio-Economic Review, Sociology Compass, Socius, and Work, Employment & Society.

Vidal has been an active public intellectual. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief (2011-19) of Work in Progress,[4] a public sociology blog of the American Sociological Association on the economy, work and inequality. He is also founder and former commissioning editor (2017-20) of the Marxist Sociology Blog,[5] another public sociology blog of the ASA.

Vidal has published over 40 short pieces of public sociology, commentary and news analysis in a range of popular outlets, including CounterPunch, The Wisconsin State Journal, The Wisconsinite, Left Turn, MR Online, Work in Progress, Everyday Sociology, LSE Impact Blog, LSE American Politics & Policy, LSE Business Review, Marxist Sociology Blog, and Jacobin.[6] He has been quoted in the New York Times.[7]

Contributions

Vidal has made contributions to many areas, including sociology of work, human resource management and employment relations;[8][9][10] labor markets;[11][12] institutional theory;[13][14][15] comparative political economy;[16][17] and Marxist theory.[18][19][20]

His work has generally been interdisciplinary, focused on developing theoretical synthesis by spanning disciplines and subfields. Important theoretical syntheses include sociology of work and comparative political economy;[21][22] sociology of work and sociological institutionalism;[23][24] Marxist theory and sociological institutionalism;[25][26][27] comparative political economy and post-Keynesian economics;[28][29] economic sociology and economic geography;[30] and sociological institutionalism and behavioral theory[31]

References
  1. "Vidal & Kusnet, Organizing Prosperity". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  2. "Hauptmeier & Vidal, Comparative Political Economy of Work". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  3. "Vidal et al, The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  4. "Work in Progress". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  5. "Marxist Sociology Blog". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  6. "Matt Vidal's CV". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  7. "Workers of the World, Sit Tight". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  8. "Lean Production, Worker Empowerment, and Job Satisfaction". doi:10.1163/156916307X168656. S2CID 145638359. Retrieved 16 November 2020. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. "Manufacturing empowerment?". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. "On the Persistence of Labor Market Insecurity and Slow Growth in the US". doi:10.1080/13563467.2012.630459. S2CID 56229942. Retrieved 16 November 2020. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. Vidal, Matt; Peck, Jamie (2012). "Sociological Institutionalism and the Socially Constructed Economy". The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography. pp. 594–611. doi:10.1002/9781118384497.ch38. ISBN 9781118384497. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  14. "Incoherence and dysfunctionality in the institutional regulation of capitalism". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  15. "Lean enough". doi:10.1177/2378023117736949. S2CID 73618923. Retrieved 16 November 2020. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  16. "Fordism and the Golden Age of Atlantic Capitalism". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  17. "Postfordism as a Dysfunctional Accumulation Regime". doi:10.1177/0950017013481876. S2CID 55223929. Retrieved 16 November 2020. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  18. "Geriatric capitalism: Stagnation and crisis in western capitalism". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  19. "Was Marx wrong about the working class?". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  20. "Contradictions of the labour process, worker empowerment and capitalist inefficiency". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  21. "Comparative Political Economy and Labour Process Theory". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  22. "The lean labour process: Global diffusion, societal effects, contradictory implementation". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  23. 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.
  24. "Lean enough". doi:10.1177/2378023117736949. S2CID 73618923. Retrieved 16 November 2020. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  25. "Postfordism as a Dysfunctional Accumulation Regime". doi:10.1177/0950017013481876. S2CID 55223929. Retrieved 16 November 2020. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  26. "Geriatric capitalism: Stagnation and crisis in western capitalism". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  27. Vidal, Matt; Adler, Paul; Delbridge, Rick (2015). "When Organization Studies Turns to Societal Problems: The Contribution of Marxist Grand Theory". Organization Studies. 36 (4): 405–422. doi:10.1177/0170840615575948. S2CID 1334819. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  28. Vidal, Matt (2012). "On the Persistence of Labor Market Insecurity and Slow Growth in the US: Reckoning with the Waltonist Growth Regime". New Political Economy. 17 (5): 543–564. doi:10.1080/13563467.2012.630459. S2CID 56229942. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  29. "Postfordism as a Dysfunctional Accumulation Regime". doi:10.1177/0950017013481876. S2CID 55223929. Retrieved 16 November 2020. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  30. Vidal, Matt; Peck, Jamie (2012). "Sociological Institutionalism and the Socially Constructed Economy". The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography. pp. 594–611. doi:10.1002/9781118384497.ch38. ISBN 9781118384497. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  31. "Lean enough". doi:10.1177/2378023117736949. S2CID 73618923. Retrieved 16 November 2020. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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