four countries, four decades, four great transformations, and one theoretical tradition /
Michael Burawoy
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2009
xviii, 338 p. ;
21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-327) and index
Prologue : bringing theory to the field -- Introduction : from Manchester to Berkeley by way of Chicago -- The extended case method : race and class in postcolonial Africa -- The ethnographic revisit : capitalism in transition and other histories -- Two methods in search of revolution : Trotsky versus Skocpol -- Multicase ethnography : tracking the demise of state socialism -- Conclusion : the ethnography of great transformations -- Epilogue : on public ethnography