Matt Vidal is a British-American sociologist. He is Reader in Sociology and Comparative Political Economy in the Institute for International Management, Loughborough University

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Education

Vidal graduated from

South Dakota State University South Dakota State University is a public land-grant research university in Brookings, South Dakota. Founded in 1881, it is the state's largest and most comprehensive university and the oldest continually-operating university in South Dakota. The ...

and received his PhD in Sociology from the

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. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the

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(UCLA) Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, a Research Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin, and a visiting researcher at the Department of Management,

Paris Dauphine University Paris Dauphine University - PSL (french: Université Paris-Dauphine, also known as Paris Dauphine - PSL or Dauphine - PSL) is a public research university based in Paris, France. It is one of the 13 universities formed by the division of the ancie ...

, Paris, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne.

Contributions

Vidal has made contributions to many areas, including sociology of work, human resource management and employment relations; labor markets; institutional theory; comparative political economy; and Marxist theory. He is author of ''Organizing Prosperity'' (

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) and co-editor of ''Comparative Political Economy of Work'' (Palgrave) and ''The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx'' (

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References

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