Matt Vidal
{{short description|British-American sociologist}}
Matt Vidal is a British-American sociologist. He is Reader in Sociology and Comparative Political Economy in the Institute for International Management, Loughborough University London.
Education
Vidal graduated from South Dakota State University and received his PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (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, 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;{{cite journal |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1163/156916307X168656 |title=Lean Production, Worker Empowerment, and Job Satisfaction |journal=Critical Sociology |date=January 2007 |volume=33 |issue=1–2 |pages=247–278 |doi=10.1163/156916307X168656 |s2cid=145638359 |access-date=16 November 2020 |last1=Vidal |first1=Matt}}{{cite journal |url=https://academic.oup.com/ser/article-abstract/5/2/197/2261205?redirectedFrom=fulltext |title=Manufacturing empowerment? |journal=Socio-Economic Review |date=April 2007 |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=197–232 |doi=10.1093/ser/mwl005 |access-date=16 November 2020 |last1=Vidal |first1=Matt}}{{cite journal |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-232X.2008.00545.x |title=Temporary Employment and Strategic Staffing in the Manufacturing Sector |year=2009 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-232X.2008.00545.x |access-date=16 November 2020 |last1=Vidal |first1=Matt |last2=Tigges |first2=Leann M. |journal=Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society |volume=48 |pages=55–72 |s2cid=54041311}} labor markets;{{cite journal |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0018726712471406 |title=Low-Autonomy Work and Bad Jobs in Postfordist Capitalism |year=2013 |doi=10.1177/0018726712471406 |access-date=16 November 2020 |last1=Vidal |first1=Matt |journal=Human Relations |volume=66 |issue=4 |pages=587–612 |s2cid=59141104}}{{cite journal |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563467.2012.630459 |title=On the Persistence of Labor Market Insecurity and Slow Growth in the US |journal=New Political Economy |date=November 2012 |volume=17 |issue=5 |pages=543–564 |doi=10.1080/13563467.2012.630459 |s2cid=56229942 |access-date=16 November 2020 |last1=Vidal |first1=Matt}} institutional theory;{{cite book |chapter-url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118384497.ch38 |chapter=Sociological Institutionalism and the Socially Constructed Economy |doi=10.1002/9781118384497.ch38|accessdate=16 November 2020 |title=The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |year=2012 |last1=Vidal |first1=Matt |last2=Peck |first2=Jamie |pages=594–611 |isbn=9781118384497}}{{cite web|url=https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/comparative-political-economy-of-work-marco-hauptmeier/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137329462&loc=uk&priceCode=fr |title=Incoherence and dysfunctionality in the institutional regulation of capitalism |access-date=16 November 2020}}{{cite journal|title=Lean enough |journal=Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World |date=January 2017 |volume=3 |doi=10.1177/2378023117736949 |s2cid=73618923 |last1=Vidal |first1=Matt|doi-access=free }} comparative political economy;{{cite web |url=https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/the-sage-handbook-of-sociology-work-and-employment/i2151.xml |title=Fordism and the Golden Age of Atlantic Capitalism |access-date=16 November 2020}}{{cite journal |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0950017013481876 |title=Postfordism as a Dysfunctional Accumulation Regime |journal=Work, Employment and Society |date=June 2013 |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=451–471 |doi=10.1177/0950017013481876 |s2cid=55223929 |access-date=16 November 2020 |last1=Vidal |first1=Matt}} and Marxist theory.{{cite book |url=https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190695545.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190695545-e-34 |chapter=Geriatric capitalism: Stagnation and crisis in western capitalism |pages=581–606 |date=10 September 2018 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190695545.013.34 |isbn=978-0-19-069554-5 |access-date=16 November 2020 |last1=Vidal |first1=Matt |title=The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx |editor1-last=Vidal |editor1-first=Matt |editor2-last=Smith |editor2-first=Tony |editor3-last=Rotta |editor3-first=Tomás |editor4-last=Prew |editor4-first=Paul |publisher=Oxford University Press}}{{cite journal |url=https://isj.org.uk/gravedigger-thesis/ |title=Was Marx wrong about the working class? |journal=International Socialism |first=Matt |last=Vidal |date=14 April 2018 |access-date=16 November 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/28/2/article-p170_6.xml?language=en |title=Contradictions of the labour process, worker empowerment and capitalist inefficiency |access-date=16 November 2020}}
He is author of Organizing Prosperity (Economic Policy Institute){{cite web |url=https://www.epi.org/publication/book_organizing_prosperity/ |title=Vidal & Kusnet, Organizing Prosperity |access-date=16 November 2020}} and co-editor of Comparative Political Economy of Work (Palgrave){{cite web |url=https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/comparative-political-economy-of-work-marco-hauptmeier/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137329462 |title=Hauptmeier & Vidal, Comparative Political Economy of Work |access-date=16 November 2020}} and The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx (Oxford University Press).{{cite web |url=https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190695545.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190695545 |title=The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx |year=2018 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190695545.001.0001 |isbn=978-0-19-069554-5 |access-date=16 November 2020 |editor1-last=Vidal |editor1-first=Matt |editor2-last=Smith |editor2-first=Tony |editor3-last=Rotta |editor3-first=Tomás |editor4-last=Prew |editor4-first=Paul |publisher=Oxford University Press}}