Erik Olin Wright

By Erik Olin Wright

Understanding Class

By Erik Olin Wright

Leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalismFew ideas are more contested today than “class.” Some have declared its death, while o...

Understanding Class

By Erik Olin Wright

Leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalismFew ideas are more contested today than “class.” Some have declared its death, while o...

Alternatives to Capitalism

By Robin Hahnel, Erik Olin Wright

What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and power—it...

How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century

By Erik Olin Wright

What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values—equ...

Legislature by Lot

By John Gastil, Erik Olin Wright

Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political classThe gap between the public and its representatives might seem unbr...

Legislature by Lot

By John Gastil, Erik Olin Wright

Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political classThe gap between the public and its representatives might seem unbr...

Class, Crisis and the State

By Erik Olin Wright

One of the major works of the new American Marxism, Wright’s book draws a challenging new class map of the United States and other, comparable, advanced capitalist countries today. It also di...

Classes

By Erik Olin Wright

Class analysis and class struggle are central concepts in Marx’s social theory yet, notoriously, Marx never wrote a systematic exposition of these terms during his lifetime, and succeeding ge...

Gender Equality

By Janet C. Gornick

In the labor market and workplace, anti-discrimination rules, affirmative action policies, and pay equity procedures exercise a direct effect on gender relations. But what can be done to influence...