Michael C. Dreiling

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director

Address: 731 PLC University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403	Phone:	(541) 346-5025
	Fax:	(541) 346-5026
	Email:	dreiling@uoregon.edu

Michael Dreiling is an associate professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. In 2001, his research on the political conflicts over the NAFTA was published as a book titled Solidarity and Contention: The Politics of Class and Sustainability in the NAFTA Conflict. Since 1997, he has published eight research articles as well. He is currently engaged in a book project examining "corporations and the making of U.S. trade policy." Over the last several years, Professor Dreiling studied nonviolence and nonviolent communication, publishing an article about the use of nonviolence in the college classroom, and is at the early stages of a project on "Globalizing Nonviolence." At the University of Oregon, he teaches courses on nonviolence, work and labor, social movements, and American society.

Research Interests

corporate political action and US trade policy
nonviolence and social movements
network analysis of collective action

Teaching Areas

political and environmental sociology
social movements
social network analysis

Courses Taught

SOC 204	Introduction to Sociology
SOC 301	American Society
SOC 313	Social Issues and Movements
SOC 346	Work and Occupations
SOC 410	Nonviolent Social Change
SOC 446	Labor as a Social Movement

Selected Books

Solidarity and Contention: The Politics of Class and Sustainability in the NAFTA Conflict. Garland Press, 2001.

Selected Articles

Forthcoming (with Brian Wolf) "Tactical Innovation at the Point of Consumption: Workers and Consumers in the Antisweatshop Movement." Humanity and Society.

2002 (with Derek Darves). "Corporate Political Networks and Trade Policy Formation." Humanity and Society 26(1): 5-27.

2002 "An Experiment in Life-Serving Education: The No-Sweat Project and Other Feats." Encounter: Education for Meaning and Justice. Autumn 15(3):49-56.

2001 (with Brian Wolf). "Environmental Movement Organizations and Political Strategy: Tactical Conflicts over the NAFTA." Organization & Environment. 14(4): 34-54.

2000 "The Class Embeddedness of Corporate Political Action: Corporate Leadership in Defense of the NAFTA." Social Problems 47(1): 21-48.

1998 "From Margin to Center: Environmental Justice and Social Unionism as Sites for Intermovement Solidarity." Race, Gender, & Class 6(1): 51-69.

1998 (with Ian Robinson) "Union Responses to NAFTA in the USA and Canada: Explaining Intra- and International Variation." Mobilization: An International Journal Vol. 3(2): 163-184.

1997 "Remapping North American Environmentalism: Contending Visions and Divergent Practices in the Fight Over NAFTA." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 8(4):65-98 (peer reviewed). Reprinted with revisions in Daniel Faber, ed. 1998. The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States. Chapter 8, pgs. 218-247. New York: Guilford Publications.

1998 (with Wisdom, K., Fryzek, J.P., Havstad, S.L., Anderson, R., Tilley, B.C., Dreiling third author). "Comparison of Laboratory Test Frequency and Test Results Between African-Americans and Caucasians with Diabetes, Opportunity for Improvement: Findings from a Large Urban Health Maintenance Organization." Diabetes Care 20(6):971-978. .

Education

Ph.D. -- University of Michigan