Burawoy, Michael.

The extended case method : four countries, four decades, four great transformations, and one theoretical tradition / Michael Burawoy. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009. - 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.

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Comparative economics.
Capitalism.
Marxism.
Working class.

330.1 BUR