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On this page you can find PDFs of various books:

The Colour of Class on the Copper Mines: From African Advancement to Zambianization (1972)

Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism (1979)

The Politics of Production: Factory Regimes Under Capitalism and Socialism (1985)

The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism (1992) With János Lukács.

Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis (1991) With Alice Burton, Ann Arnett Ferguson, Kathryn J. Fox, Joshua Gamson, Nadine Gartrell, Leslie Hurst, Charles Kurzman, Leslie Salzinger, Josepha Schiffman, and Shiori Ui.

Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World (2000) With Joseph A. Blum, Sheba George, Zsuzsa Gille, Teresa Gowan, Lynne Haney, Maren Klawiter, Steven H. Lopez, Seán Ó Riain, and Millie Thayer.

O Marxismo Encontra Bourdieu (2010)

Conversations with Bourdieu: The Johannesburg Moment (2012) With Karl Von Holdt
The Extended Case Method: Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformations and One Theoretical Tradition (2009)
Symbolic Violence: Conversations with Bourdieu (2019)
Pour un Marxisme Sociologique (2021)

Public Sociology: Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia (2021)

	THE COLOUR OF CLASS Title 1.Introduction 2: History and Structure 3: Zambianization -- Too fast or Too Slow? 4.Obstacles to Zambianization 5.Zambianization and Anomie 6.Working Class Conservatism? 7.Pressure on the Companies 8.A Paradox of Independence 9.Conclusion: the Colour of Class.
	MANUFACTURING CONSENT Title Contents Preface 1.From Sociology to Marxism 2.Changes in the Labor Process 3.The Production of Consent 4.The Relative Autonomy of the Labor Process 5.The Motors of Change Appendix Notes Bibliography and Index
	THE POLITICS OF PRODUCTION Title Contents Preface Introduction The Labour Process in Capitalist Society Karl Marx and the Satanic Mills The Changing Face of Factory Regimes Under Advanced Capitalism Workers in Workers' States The Hidden Abode of Underdevelopment Conclusion Index
	THE RADIANT PAST Title Contents Preface 1. A Sociologicasl Diary PART ONE: IDEOLOGY vs. REALITY 2.Piece Rates, Hungarian Style 3.Mythologies of industrial Work PART TWO: IDEOLOGY as REALITY 4.Production in a Shortage Economy 5.Painting Socialism CONCLUSION 6.The Radiant Future NOTES Bibliography and Index
	ETHNOGRAPHY UNBOUND Title Contents Preface 1.Introduction 2.Reconstructing Social Theories PART I NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 3.Gamson: Silence Death, and the Invisible Enemy 4.Schiffman: "Fight the Power" PART 2: REORGANIZING THE WORKPLACE 5.Burton: Dividing Up the Struggle 6.Ferguson: Managing Without Managers PART 3: NEW IMMIGRANTS 7.Salzinger: A Maid by Any other Name 8.Ui: "Unlikely Heroes." PART 4: FROM CLASSROOM TO COMMUNITY 9.Hurst: Mr. Henry Makes a Deal 10.Gartrell: Coming Together PART 5: RESEARCHING THE RESEARCHERS 11.Fox: The Politics of Prevention 12.Kurzman: Convincing Sociologists 13.Conclusion: The Extended Case Method 14.Appendix: Teaching Participant Observation Notes Bibliography Index
	GLOBAL ETHNOGRAPHY Title Contents Preface 1.Introduction: Reaching for the Global PART 1: GLOBAL FORCES 2.Haney: Global Discourses of Need 3.Gowan: Homeless Men Recycle Their Pasts 4.Blum: Degradation Without Deskilling PART 2: GLOBAL CONNECTIONS 5.George: "Dirty Nurses" and "Men Who Play" 6.Ó Riain: Net-Working for a Living 7.Thayer: Traveling Feminisms PART 3: GLOBAL IMAGINATIONS 8.Gille: Cognitive Cartography in a EuroWasteland 9.Lopez: Contesting the Global City 10.Klawiter: From Private Stigma to Global Assembly 11.Conclusion: Grounding Globalization Bibliography Index
	O MARXISMO ENCONTRA BOURDIEU Apresentação, Prefácio I.Marx encontra Bourdieu II.Gramsci encontra Bourdieu III.Burawoy encontra Bourdieu IV.Fanon encontra Bourdieu V.Beauvoir encontraBourdieu VI.Bourdieu herda Wright Mills Bibliografia
	CONVERSATIONS WITH BOURDIEU Preface & Prologue 1.Sociology as a Combat Support 2.Theory and Practice 3.Cultural Domination 4.Colonialism and Revolution 5.Pedagogy of the Oppressed 6.The Antinomies of Feminism 7.Intellectuals and Their publics 8.Manufacturing Dissent Epilogue: Travelling Theory Bibliography & Index
	THE EXTENDED CASE METHOD Title & Table of Contents Prologue & Introduction 1.The Extended Case Method 2.The Ethnographic Revisit 3.Two Methods in Search of Revolution 4.Multicase Ethnography Conclusion: Great Transformations Epilogue: On Public Ethnography Notes References Index
	SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE Title, Contents and Acknowledgment Prologue: Encountering Bourdieu 1.Sociology is a Combat Sport: From Parsons to Bourdieu 2.The Poverty of Philosophy: Marx Meets Bourdieu 3.Cultural Domination: Gramsci Meets Bourdieu 4.Colonial and Revolution: Fanon Meets Bourdieu 5.Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Freire Meets Bourdieu 6.The antinomies of Feminism: Beauvoir Meets Bourdieu 7.The Sociological Imagination: Mills Meets Bourdieu 8.The Twofold Truth of Labor: Burawoy Meets Bourdieu 9.The Weight of the World: Bourdieu Meets Bourdieu Conclusion: The Limits of Symbolic Violence Notes References and Index
	POUR UN MARXISME SOCIOLOGIQUE Pour un Marxisme Sociologique par Michael Burawoy et Erik Olin Wright Les Trois Vagues du Marxisme. Penser Le Capitalisme Apres Polanyi by Michael Burawoy Quelques Questions a Michael Burawoy Bibliographie
	PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY Title and Contents PREFACE INTRODUCTION: THE PROMISE OF SOCIOLOGY PART ONE THEORY AND PRACTICE 1.Theory: Utopia and Anti-Utopia 2.Practice: The (Di)vision of Sociological Labor PART TWO POLICY SOCIOLOGY 3.The Language Question in University Education 4.Job Evaluation in a Racial Order PART THREE: PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY 5.The Color of Class 6.Student Rebellion PART FOUR: CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY 7.Race, Class and Colonialism 8.Migrant Labor and the State 9.Manufacturing Consent 10.Racial Capitalism PART FIVE: PROFESSIONAL SOCIOLOGY 11.Advancing a Research Program 12.Painting Socialism 13.The Great Involution PART SIX: REAL UTOPIAS 14.Third-Wave Marketization 15.Whither the Public University? 16.Living Theory CONCLUSION: BIOGRAPHY MEETS HISTORY Notes and References Index

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