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Stephen Leacock Building, Room 820
855 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 2T7

Tel.: 514-398-6852
Email: barry.eidlin [at] mcgill.ca

Office Hours:

Tuesdays: 10:00 - 12:00 or by appointment

• Research Areas
• Biography
• Publications
• Courses Taught

Research Areas

Political sociology, economic sociology, organizations and institutions, comparative historical sociology, inequality and social policy, social theory, logic of inquiry, work, labor, social movements.

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Biography

(PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2012).

Barry Eidlin is a comparative historical sociologist interested in the study of class, politics, inequality, and social change. More specifically, his research explores the changing relationship between social mobilization, political processes, and ideology in advanced capitalist democracies. His research has examined diverging trajectories of working class power in the United States and Canada over the course of the twentieth century, changing party-class relations in the United States and Canada, intra-class conflict and organizational transformation in the Teamsters Union, and the effect of Walmart on retail sector wages, among other things. Eidlin鈥檚 major current project revisits the question of 鈥渨hy no workplace democracy in America?鈥� Starting from the paradox that most Americans take for granted certain basic rights as citizens that they then willingly check at the door when they show up for work, the project first examines the history of workplace democracy, when workers didn't make such a stark division between their economic lives as workers and political lives as citizens. It then explains how this division between economic and political life developed and became entrenched. He is also working on a series of other projects broadly aimed re-theorizing contemporary notions of class identity, ideology, and politics.

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Recent Publications

Book:

. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in the Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics series) (2018)

Edited volumes:

Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 37: Rethinking Class and Social Difference听(co-edited with Michael A. McCarthy) (Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2020).

Peer-reviewed articles:

"Moral Economies, Mobilization, and Inequality: The Case of the 2018 U.S. Teachers' Strikes" (with Eric Blanc). Forthcoming in听Research in Political Sociology听vol. 28 (2021).

"Introducing Rethinking Class and Social Difference: A Dynamic Asymmetry Approach" (with Michael A. McCarthy).听Political Power and Social Theory听vol. 37 (2020).

"U.S. Union Decline, Revitalization, and the Missing "Militant Minority" (with Micah Uetricht).听Labor Studies Journal听44(1):36-59 (2019).

鈥�.鈥� New Labor Forum 27(1):70-79 (2018) (with Micah Uetricht).

鈥�.鈥� Labor Studies Journal 42(3):226鈥� 32. (2017)

鈥�.鈥� American Sociological Review 81(3):488-516 (2016).

鈥淯nions and Inequality.鈥� In Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology, Janeen Baxter, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).

鈥�." Politics & Society 43(2): 181-211 (2015).

鈥溾�� Sociology Compass 8(8):1045鈥�62 (2014).

鈥淐lass and Work.鈥� Chapter 4 in Sage Handbook on the Sociology of Work and Employment, Stephen Edgell, Heidi Gottfried, and Edward Granter, eds. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE, 2015).

鈥淐ontinuity or Change? Rethinking Left Party Formation in Canada.鈥� Pp. 61-86 in Building Blocs: How Parties Organize Society, Cedric de Leon, Manali Desai, and Cihan Tu千al, eds. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015).

鈥溾赌�.鈥� Labor History, 50(3):249-267 (2009).

Book Chapters:

"Labor Unions听and Movements,"听Oxford Handbook of Karl Max, Matthew Vidal, Tomas Rotta, Tony Smith, and Paul Prew, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).
Reprinted as "."听闯补肠辞产颈苍听January 6, 2020.

"Social Class and Social Movements" (with Jasmine Kerrissey, equal authorship),听奥颈濒别测-叠濒补肠办飞别濒濒听Companion to Social Movements, 2nd ed.,听David Snow, Sarah Soule, Hanspeter Kriesi, and Holly McCammon, eds. (Hoboken: Wiley, 2018).

Book Reviews:

"."听Social Forces, published online January 22, 2021.

"Review of听Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions Since the New Deal听by Michael A. McCarthy."听Social Forces听98(4): 1-4 (2020).听

"Class War on New Ground: Review of听On New Terrain听by Kim Moody."听Against the Current听198 (Jan-Feb): 33-35 (2019).

"Review of听When Solidarity Works: Labor-Civic Networks and Welfare States in the Market Reform Era听by Cheol-Sung Lee."听Contemporary Sociology听47(5):605-607 (2018).

鈥淩eview of Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures by Betsy Leondar- Wright.鈥� Contemporary Sociology 45:2 (2016), 206-209.

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Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses:

SOCI 211: Sociological Inquiry

SOCI 312: Sociology of Work and Industry

SOCI 386: Contemporary Social Movements

Graduate Seminar:

SOCI 501: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

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