The Extended Case Method: Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformations, and One Theoretical Tradition

by Michael Burawoy

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520259017
• ISBN13: 9780520259010
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"