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Linda Fuller

Professor

Address:
630 PLC
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
Phone: (541) 346-5843
Fax: (541) 346-5026
Email: lofuller@uoregon.edu

Dr. Fuller works on developing areas, socialists societies, and political economy. She has a strong interest in methods and epistemology.

Research Interests

  • development and alternatives to development
  • comparative socialism
  • social change
  • intersections of inequalities (North/South, class, race, gender, environment, work)
        

Teaching Areas

  • development
  • political economy
  • work and social change
  • Latin America, East/Central Europe

Courses Taught

SOC 420 Political Economy
SOC 450 Sociology of Developing Areas
SOC 607 Seminar in Philosophy and Epistemology of Social Research
SOC 612 Overview of Sociological Methods

Selected Books:

Where was the working class?: Revolution in Eastern Germany Urabna: University of Illinois Press. 1999.

Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba (Philadelphia: Temple University Press). 1992.

Selected Articles:

2000 "Socialism and the Transition in East and Central Europe: The Homogeneity Paradigm, Class, and Economic Efficiency." Annual Review of Sociology 2000, 26:585-609.

2000 "The Socialist Labor Process, the Working Class, and Revolution in the German Democratic Republic." Europe-Asia Studies 50(3):469-492.

1991 "Consumers' Reports: Management by Consumers in a Changing Economy." Work, Employment and Society 5(1):1-16.

Education

Ph.D. -- University of California, Berkeley