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Ian Robinson | Yale University
1990 |
| Email:eian@umich.edu
US Postal Address
Room:3214 LSA
Other Office: 118 Tyler
Phone: 734 647-6898Alt Phone: 734 647-6713
Alt Phone: 734 763-1270 |
| A description of my research interests:
Much of my recent work examines the economic and political consequences of
the current, neoliberal model of national and international economic
organization. I am co-authoring a book that explores how
neoliberal restructuring has affected the labor movements of North
America, and how these movements have responded strategically to these
changes. I am also researching the impact of neoliberal policies and their
legitimating discourses on the dynamics of federal systems, and on the
levels and forms of political participation in the United States and
Canada. Assessing the feasibility of alternatives to the neoliberal model
is another concern. I am working with three Sociology colleagues (Prasad,
Kimeldorf and Meyer) to develop experiments to assess the feasibility of
consumer-oriented schemes for advancing international worker
rights. Longer range projects are a comparative analysis of the evolution
of U.S. and Canadian labor movement character since the late 19th century,
and a systematic exploration of the factors explaining variations in labor
movement political power within the rich capitalist polities of the global
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