The Extended Case Method: Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformations, and One Theoretical Tradition
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1. Verfasser: Burawoy, Michael (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: CA University of California Press 2009
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Beschreibung:Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Prologue: Bringing Theory to the Field; Introduction: From Manchester to Berkeley; 1. The Extended Case Method: Race and Class in Postcolonial Africa; 2. The Ethnographic Revisit: Capitalism in Transition and Other Histories; 3. Two Methods in Search of Revolution: Trotsky versus Skocpol; 4. Multicase Ethnography: Tracking the Demise of State Socialism; Conclusion: The Ethnography of Great Transformations; Epilogue: On Public Ethnography; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.
In this remarkable collection of essays, Michael Burawoy develops the extended case method by connecting his own experiences among workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth century--the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the reconstruction of U.S. capitalism, and the African transition to post-colonialism in Zambia. Burawoy's odyssey began in 1968 in the Zambian copper mines and proceeded to Chicago's South Side, where he worked as a machine operator and enjoyed a unique perspective on the stability of advanced capitalism. In the 1980s, this perspecti
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