Andrew Austin

University of Wisconsin Green Bay, Democracy and Justice Studies, Faculty Member

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Andrew Austin is a teacher of Democracy and Justice Studies and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin—Green Bay. His areas of interests are crime and justice, political economy, and political sociology. He has published numerous articles, essays, and reviews in books, journals, and magazines. He has chaired, presented, or had papers read at more than a dozen professional conferences. He was honored in 2002 with the Spectrum Award for outstanding scholarship. In 2006 and 2007, he traveled to Amman, Jordan, where he lectured on the politicization of religion and democracy and human rights at the United Nations University. In 2018, he penned the preface to the Skyhorse edition of The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels.

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Labor History, 2009

Paul Krugman believes that the revival of the labor movement in the USA is critical to the renewa... more Paul Krugman believes that the revival of the labor movement in the USA is critical to the renewal of liberal hopes for a fairer, more equitable society. He looks back on the post-World War II decades as a period of labor-led, middle-class prosperity and progress. Labor could play such a leading role because of the gains workers and unions had made in the 1930s and 1940s. Although acknowledging the role of infectious worker militancy in labor’s rebirth, Krugman stresses the role of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, highlighting ‘the government’s shift from agent of the bosses to protector of the workers’ (p. 51). After the war, strong unions boosted lower-income purchasing power and set standards for non-union employers and workers. Moreover, the bargaining strategies of the new industrial unions privileged the needs of the non-skilled workers at the bottom of the wage profile, thus playing a key role in the emergence in the postwar period of a uniquely American blue...

Explanation and Responsibility: Agency and Motive in Lynching and Genocide

Before subsiding in the 1960s, lynching at the hands of white people in the United States would c... more Before subsiding in the 1960s, lynching at the hands of white people in the United States would claim the lives of several thousand African Americans. Two early 21st-century publications compel us to revisit this form of collective murder and ponder its significance for the sociological and moral understanding of racial violence.

Race, Class, and Gender of Prisoners

Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities, 2005

Race, class, and gender powerfully influence our life chances, shaping where we go to school, wor... more Race, class, and gender powerfully influence our life chances, shaping where we go to school, work, and reside, whom we marry, and how long we live. They intersect in numerous complex ways, both within the prison and outside. Prisoners are disproportionately likely to be poor, male, and members of minority groups, particularly African American and Latino(a). To that extent, the penal population does not reflect the outside community.

Prisonization

Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities, 2005

The Truth According to Bud Peterson

In the construction of a national history serving the interests of the ruling class, when you can... more

Advancing Accumulation and Managing Its Discontents: The U.S. Antienvironmental Countermovement

Sociological Spectrum, 2002

Changes in US environmental policy direction under the Bush Administration reflect two interdepen... more

Does Forced Sexual Contact Have Criminogenic Effects?

Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 2004

... Does Forced Sexual Contact Have Criminogenic Effects? An Empirical Test of Derailment TheoryA... more

The Communist Manifesto One Hundred Years After the October Revolution

The Communist Manifesto, 2018

The Communist Manifesto is arguably the most consequential political pamphlet ever written. Its w... more The Communist Manifesto is arguably the most consequential political pamphlet ever written. Its words have inspired millions of men and women to rail and rise against the capitalist mode of production and build a different world. At the zenith of world socialism in the 1980s, governments inspired by the pamphlet’s ideas reached across Eurasia and Asia, with satellites in Africa and the Americas, organizing more than a billion people under some form of Marxist-inspired government. Many countries outside the state-socialist sphere have also found the argument persuasive, as the success of social democratic movements throughout the capitalist world attest to. But the pamphlet is more than a call for social justice and a different politics. Its arguments assume a scientific account of the history of capitalism and forecast globalization. Its predictive power testifies to its conceptual adequacy and theoretical cogency. Indeed, The Manifesto lays bare the engine of societal development in such a compelling way that academic disciplines – anthropology, geography, history, political science, sociology, even psychology – have incorporated elements of its approach in their work.

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