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

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Education

Vidal graduated from

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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,

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, 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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