The Politics of Punishment:
A Critical Analysis of Prisons in America
(Harper Colophon Books, 1973)
Selected Published Writing
Books, Articles, Symposia & Debates
1. The Politics of Punishment: A Critical Analysis of Prisons in America. New York: Harper and Row and Harper Colophon Books, 1973.
2. Class, Crisis and the State, London: New Left Books, 1978; Verso paperbacks, 1979.
3. Class Structure and Income Determination, New York: Academic Press, 1979.
4. The Value Controversy, edited by Ian Steedman
5. Classes (London: Verso, 1985). Spanish translation, 1994.
6. The Debate on Classes (London: Verso, 1990)
7. Reconstructing Marxism: essays on Explanation and the Theory of History (with Elliott Sober and Andrew Levine), Verso, 1992
8. Interrogating Inequality (London: Verso, 1994), Spanish translation, 2005
9. Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Chinese Translation, 2004 (pdf not available)
10. Class Counts: student edition (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
11. Deepening Democracy: institutional innovations in empowered participatory governance (with Archon Fung), London: Verso: 2003. Spanish translation.
12. Approaches to Class Analysis, edited by Erik Olin Wright. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
13. Envisioning Real Utopias. (London and New York: Verso, 2010)
14. American Society: How it Really Works (with Joel Rogers), New York: W.W. Norton, 2011 (pdf not available)
15. Alternatives to Capitalism, with Robin Hahnel) New York and London: Verso, 2016
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The Politics of Punishment: A Critical Analysis of Prisons in America (Harper Colophon Books, 1973) |
Part I. CRIME AND ITS PUNISHMENT, by Erik Olin Wright
Chapter 1. The Meaning of Crime
Chapter 2. The Punishment of Crime
Chapter 3. The Rehabilitation Prison Model
Part II. SAN QUENTIN PRISON: A PORTRAIT OF CONTRADICTIONS, by Erik Olin Wright
Chapter 4. General Features of San Quentin Prison
Chapter 5. San Quentin Prison as seen by the prison officials
Chapter 6. San Quentin Prison as seen by the prisoners
Chapter 7. Liberal Totalitarianism in Prisons
Part III. TROUBLES AT SOLEDAD
Chapter 8. The roots of violence at Soledad, by Frank Rundle
Chapter 9. A Chronicle of three years in the hole, by Thomas Lopez Meneweather
Chapter 10. The Soledad Seven: attempted murder in Monterrey, by Eve Pell
Chapter 11. Violence and Lawlessness at Soledad, by Fay Stender
Part IV. CHALLENGES TO THE SYSTEM
Chapter 12. From Riot to Revolution, by John Pallas and Robert Barber
Chapter 13. Prison reform through the legislature, by James F. Smith
Chapter 14. Change through the courts, by Brian Glick
Chapter 15. Prison reform and Radical Change, by Erik Olin Wright
Author's note and About the Authors
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(Verso, 1978) |
Chapter 1. Methodological Introduction
Chapter 2. The Class Structure of Advanced Capitalist Societies
Chapter 3. Historical Transformations of Capitalist Crisis Tendencies
Chapter 4. Bureaucracy and the State
Chapter 5. Conclusion: Socialist Strategies and the State in Advanced Capitalist Societies
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Class Structure and Income Determination (Academic Press: 1979) |
Entire book (270 pages)
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edited by Ian Steedman (Verso, 1981) |
The Value Controversy and Social Research, by Erik Olin Wright
Critique of Wright 1. Labour and Profits, by Geoff Hodgson
Critique of Wright 2. In Defense of a Post-Sraffian Approach, by Pradeep Bandyopadhyay
Reconsiderations, by Erik Olin Wright
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Classes by Erik Olin Wright, (Verso, 1985)
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Chapter 1. Posing the Problem: the Agenda of Class Analysis
Part One. Conceptual Issues
Chapter 2. The Biography of a Concept: contradictory class locations
Chapter 3. A General Framework for the Analysis of Class
Chapter 4. Implications and Elaborations of the General Framework
Part Two: Empirical Investigations
Chapter 5. Empirically Adjudicating Contending Class Definitions
Chapter 6. Class Structure in Contemporary Capitalism
Chapter 7. Class Structure and Class Consciousness in Contemporary Capitalist Society
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The Debate on Classes by Erik Olin Wright, and other contributors (Verso, 1989)
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Detailed Table of Contents and Preface
Chapter 1. A General Framework for the Analysis of Class Structure
Chapter 2. Exchange on Classes, a discussion between Erik Olin Wright and Michael Burawoy
Chapter 3. Classes and Class Analysis, by G. Carchedi
Chapter 4. Class Theory: Still the Axis of Critical Social Scientific Analysis? by Uwe Becker
Chapter 5. Symposium on Classes, papers by Val Burris, Arthur Stinchcombe, Peter Meiksins, Johanna Brenner, and Erik Olin Wright
Chapter 6. A Revolution in Class Theory, by Philippe Van Parijs
Chapter 7. Constructing the (W)right Classes, by David Rose and Gordon Marshall
Chapter 8. Rethinking, Once Again, the Concept of Class Structure, by Erik Olin Wright
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Reconstructing Marxism: essays on Explanation and the Theory of History, by Erik Olin Wright, Andrew Levine and Elliott Sober (Verso, 1992) |
PART I. THE THEORY OF HISTORY: Introduction
2. Classical Historical Materialism
3. What is Historical about Historical Materialism?
5. Towards a Reconstructed Historical Materialism
PART II. EXPLANATION: Introduction
6. Marxism and Methodological Individualism
PART III. CONCLUSION
8. Prospects for the Marxist Agenda
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Interrogating Inequality: essays on class analysis, socialism and Marxism (Verso, 1994) |
Prologue: Falling into Marxism; Choosing to Stay
Introduction to Part I. Class Analysis
Chapter 1. Inequality
Chapter 2. The Class Analysis of Poverty
Chapter 3. The status of the political in the concept of class structure
Chapter 4. Coercion and Consent in Contested Exchange (with Michael Burawoy)
Chapter 5. Class and Politics
Introduction to Part II: Socialism
Chapter 6. Capitalism's Futures: a reconceptualization of post-capitalist modes of production
Chapter 7. Why something like socialism is necessary for the transition to something like communism
Introduction to Part III: Marxism
Chapter 8. What is Analytical Marxism?
Chapter 9. Marxism as Social Science
Chapter 10. Explanation and Emancipation in Marxism and Feminism
Chapter 11. Marxism after Communism
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Class Counts: comparative studies in class analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
(Student edition, 2000) |
Chapters from the Student edition, 2000
Chapter 1. Class Analysis
Chapter 2. Class Structure
Chapter 3. The Transformation of the American Class Structure, 1960-1990
Chapter 4. The fall and rise of the American Petty Bourgeoisie
Chapter 5. The Permeability of Class Boundaries
Chapter 6. Conceptualizing the interaction of class and gender
Chapter 7. Individuals, families and class analysis
Chapter 8. The noneffects of class on the gendered division of labor
Chapter 9. The gender gap in workplace authority
Chapter 10. A general framework for studying class consciousness and class formation
Chapter 11. Class consciousness and class formation in Sweden, the United States and Japan
Chapter 12. Conclusion: confirmations, surprises, and theoretical reconstructions
Some materials from the full edition, 1997, that were not in the student edition
Full version of chapter 1. Class Analysis
Methodological Appendix to chapter 2
Chapter 15 (deleted from student edition). Class, state employment and consciousness
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Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance, by Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright, with contributions by Rebecca Abers Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Joshua Cohen, Patrick Heller, Bradley Karkkainen, Rebecca Krantz, Jane Mansbridge, Joel Rogers, Craig Thomas, and T.M. Thomas Isaac (Verso, 2003) |
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Thinking about Empowered Participatory Governance, by Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright
Part II. Case Studies (chapter 2-5)
Part III. Commentaries (chapter 6-10)
Part IV. Epilogue
Chapter 11. Countervailing Power in empowered Participatory Governance, by Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright
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Democracia en Profundidad: Nuevas formas institucionales de gobierno participativo con poder de decisión
Approaches to Class Analysis (final manuscript
draft: January 2004). Cambridge University Press: 2005
Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Real Utopias? Chapter 2 The Tasks of Emancipatory Social Science Part I. Diagnosis and Critique Chapter 3 What’s so Bad about Capitalism?
Part II. Alternatives Chapter 4 Thinking about Alternatives to Capitalism Chapter 5 The Socialist Compass Chapter 6 Real Utopias I: Social Empowerment and the State Chapter 7 Real Utopias II: Social Empowerment and the Economy
Part III. Transformation Chapter 8 Elements of a Theory of Transformation Chapter 9 Ruptural Transformation Chapter 10 Interstitial Transformation Chapter 11 Symbiotic Transformation
Conclusion Making Utopias Real
Spanish language Translations Clase, Crisis, y Estado (Siglio XXI, 1983) Clases (Siglio XXI, 1985) Part 1 (pp. 1-152) Part 2. (pp. 152-375) Reflecxiones sobre Socialismo, Capitalismo y Marxismo (Collectio Contextos, 1997) "Reflexionando, una vez mas, sobre el concepto de estructura de clases" Zona Abierto 59/60 (1992)
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"Analysis of the Total Number of Twists resulting from Cutting any Order Moebius Bands With any Number of Cuts," Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, vol. 67, No. 2, 1964
“Recent Developments on Marxist Theories of the State”, by David Gold, Clarence Lo and Erik Olin Wright. Monthly Review, October and November, 1975.
"Class Boundaries in Advanced Capitalist Societies," New Left Review, Number 98, 1976, pp. 3-41
"Marxist Class Categories and Income Inequality," (with Luca Perrone), American Sociological Review, vol. 42:1, 1977, pp. 32-55
"Race, Class, and Income Inequality," American Journal of Sociology, vol. 85:6, 1978
"Varieties of Marxist Conceptions of Class Structure," Politics & Society, vol 9, no.3 (1980): 323-70
"Positional Power and Propensity to Strike", by Luca Perrone (edited by Erik Olin Wright), Politics & Society, No. 12:2 (1983): 231-61
"Inequality", in The New Palgrave, ed. by John Eatwell (London: Macmillan, 1987)
"Falling Into Marxism, Choosing to Stay," Mid-American Review of Sociology, 1991. Vol. XV, No.2:1-14
“The Continuing Relevance of Class Analysis”, Theory and Society. 1996. 25:693-716
“Reflections on Classes” (an exchange with Michael Burawoy), section 3 in the Debate on Classes (Verso, 1989), pp. 77-104.
"Review of Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy." Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 25, No. 2. (Mar., 1996), pp. 176-179.
“Working-Class Power, Capitalist-Class Interests, and Class Compromise,” American Journal of Sociology, Volume 105 Number 4 (January 2000): 957–1002
Class, Exploitation, and Economic Rents: Reflections on Sorenson's "Sounder Basis" American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 105, No. 6 (May 2000), pp. 1559-1571
“The Glass Ceiling Hypothesis: a comparative study of United States, Sweden and Australia,” (with Janeen Baxter) Gender & Society, 14:2, pp. 275-94, April 2000
“Metatheoretical foundations of Charles Tilly's Durable Inequality,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol 42:3, April 2000. pp. 458-474
“Sociological Marxism”, with Michael Burawoy, in Handbook of Sociological Theory (ed by Jonathan Turner, Plenum Press, 2001)
“The Shadow of Exploitation in Weber's Class Analysis” American Sociological Review 2002, Vol. 67, December:832–853 (Final page proofs for published version, December 2002)
“Complex
Egalitarianism” (with Harry Brighouse),
Historical Materialism, 2002. vol. 10:1 (193-222)
“The patterns of job expansions
in the USA: a comparison of the 1960s and 1990s” (with Rachel Dwyer)
Socioeconomic Review 2003 1: 289-325.
Appendix to "The Patterns of Job Expansions in the United States: a comparison of the 1960s and 1990s”, by Erik Olin Wright and Rachel Dwyer (full paper published in The Socio-Economic Review)
“Beneficial Constraints: beneficial for whom?” Socio-economic Review 2004 2:461-467
“Class”, in International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, edited by Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovsky (Routledge, 2006), pp. 62-68
“Basic Income as a Socialist Project”, Rutgers Journal of Law & Urban Policy Vol. 2, Fall 2005, No.1
“Falling into Marxism, Choosing to stay”, The Disobedient Generation: social theorists in the 1960s, edited by Alan Sica and Stephen Turner (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
"Two Redistributive Proposals -- universal basic income and stakeholder grants", Focus (volume 24, No. 2), 2006
"Compass Points: towards a socialist alternative", New Left Review 41 September-October, 2006, pp. 93-124
"LOS PUNTOS DE LA BRÚJULA: hacia una alternativa socialista" Spanish translation of "Compass Points"
"Imaginando Utopías Reales", lecture at the University of Buenos Aires, 2007
"Guidelines for Envisioning Real Utopias”, Soundings: a journal of politics and culture, 36: summer 2007, pp. 26-39
"Sociologists and Economists on 'The Commons'", in The Contested Commons edited by Pranhab Bardhan and Isha Ray (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), pp. 234-238
"Entrevista: Erik Olin Wright e Michael Burawoy" by Ruy Braga e Alvaro Bianchi (Portuguese) in CULT #122, 2008 (English translation)
"Strong Gender Egalitarianism," by Harry Brighouse and Erik Olin Wright, chapter 3 in Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers, Gender Equality: transforming divisions of labor in the family, vol,. VI in the Real Utopias Project (London and New York: Verso, 2009)
"Understanding Class: toward an integrated analytical approach", New Left Review, 60, November-December 2009
"The Triadic model of Society in Somers' Genealogies of Citizenship" Socio-economic Review (2011) 9: 405-418. [Version in Trajectories vol 22:2, Spring 2011]
“Real Utopias,” Contexts, Spring, 2011
"The Wisconsin Protests" (English original of article translated into German, published in journal of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, 2011)
"In defense of Genderlessness", in Axel Grosseries and Yannick Vanderborght (eds), Arguing about justice: essays for Philippe van Parijs (Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2011), pp. 403-413)
"Real Utopias in and beyond Capitalism: taking the social in socialism seriously," Fifth Annual Nicos Poulantzas Memorial Lecture (Athens, Greece: Nissos, Nicos Poulantzas Institute, 2012)
1. “Taking the social in socialism seriously”, Socio-economic Review, 2012. 10:286-402
"Class Struggle and Class Compromise in the Era of Stagnation and Crisis", Transform! European journal for alternative thinking and political dialogue, 11/2012, pp. 22-44
"Transforming Capitalism through Real Utopias," American Sociological review, February, 2013
"Class and Inequality in Piketty," Contexts, Winter 2015
"Eroding Capitalism: A Comment on Stuart White's ‘Basic Capital in the Egalitarian Toolkit”, Journal of Applied Philosophy. November 2015, Volume 32, issue 4, pp. 432-439
“Is the Precariat a Class?” Global Labor Journal, vo. 7, No 2, pp. 123-135. 2016
"Sociological limitations of the climate change encyclical", Nature climate Change, vol. 5, October 2015
"How to be an Anticapitalist Today", Jacobin, December, 2015.
“How to Think About (and Win) Socialism." Jacobin (on line). 4.27.16.
“Two approaches to inequality and their normative implications.” Items: insights from the Social sciences. SSRC. July, 2016.
"Real Utopias and the Dilemmas of Institutional Transformation," Justice, Power and Resistance, vol. 1, No.1, 2016, pp. 33-52.
"The Capitalist State and the Possibility of Socialism," in Gunnar Olofsson and Sven Hort (eds). Class, Sex and Revolutions: Goran Therborn -- A critical apprasal (Stockholm, Arkiv forlad: 2016)
Discussion Forum on Erik Olin Wright’s Envisioning Real Utopias, Socio-economic Review, 2012. 10: 369-402
Marion Fourcade, “The socialization of capitalism or the neoliberalization of socialism?”, pp. 369-75
Dylan Riley, Neo-Tocquevillian Marxism: Erik Olin Wright’s Real Utopias” pp. 375-81
Cihuan Tugal, “Intermittent revolution: the road to a hybrid socialism”, pp. 382-6
Erik Olin Wright, “Taking the social in socialism seriously”, p. 286-402
"Engaging Emancipatory Social Science and Social Theory: a Symposium on Erik Olin Wright’s Envisioning Real Utopias,” edited by Thad Williamson, New Political science, Vol. 34:2, August, 2012.
Thad Williamson, “Emancipatory Politics, Emancipatory Political Science: on Erik Olin Wright’s Envisioning Real Utopias.”
Craig Borowiak, “Scaling Up Utopias: E.O. Wright and the Search for Economic Alternatives”
J.S. Maloy, “Real Utopias in a Gilder Age: the case of American Populism”
Gar Alperowitz, et. Al., “Building Real Utopias: the emerging project of evolutionary reconstruction.”
Erik Olin Wright, “Reply to Comments on Envisioning Real Utopias”
