JAMES W. RUSSELL
University Professor of Sociology
Eastern Connecticut State University
Willimantic, CT 06226
U.S.A.
Telephone 860-465-4631
RussellJ@easternct.edu
JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Commentary ‘The Myth of the Spat-upon Vietnam Veteran’ by Jerry Lembcke” in Humanity and Society, vol. 27, no. 4 (November 2003), pp. 642-3.
"Land and Identity in Mexico: Peasants Stop an Airport,” Monthly Review, February 2003.
“O Nafte, Chiapasu a Kukuricynch zrnech,” (interview article). Sedmá Generace
(Czech Republic), December, 2001.
“Intellectual Partnerships and Grudges: Hans Gerth’s Relationship with C. Wright Mills,” Critical Sociology, vol. 27, no. 3, 2001. Republished in Aronowitz (below)
"Mexico's Rising Inequality," Monthly Review, vol. 49, no. 7 (December 1997), pp. 28-33.
"The New North American Division of Labor," Society for the Study of Social Problems Newsletter, July 1996.
"Editor's Introduction." Critical Sociology, vol. 21, no. 2 (1995), pp. 3-5.
"Operation Bootstrap and NAFTA: Comparing the Social Consequences." Critical Sociology, Vol. 21, no. 2 (1995), pp. 91-107.
"Las Poblaciones Economicamente Activas de México y Estados Unidos: Un análisis comparativo" [The labor forces of Mexico and the United States: a comparative analysis]. Cuadernos del Posgrado, no. 5 (1994), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
"Labor Force and Economic Development in Mexico and the United States." Voices of Mexico, number 19, April-June, 1992.
"Free trade and concentration of capital in Mexico." Pp. 23-30 of Monthly Review, vol. 44, no. 2 (June 1992).
"Class and nationality relations in a Texas border City: the case of El Paso." Pp.217-39 of Aztlán: International Journal of Chicano Studies Research, vol.16, no.1 (1987).
"Method, analysis, and politics in Max Weber." Pp.575-90 of History of Political Economy, vol.17, no.4 (winter 1985).
"A borderline case: maquiladora industry in Mexico," Business and Society Review (summer 1984), pp.17-20, originally published in The Progressive (below).
"Theory of the new middle class." Pp.247-57 of Sociological Spectrum, vol.1, no.3 (1981).
"Dialectics and class analysis." Pp.474-79 of Science and Society, vol.44, no.4 (1980).
"Rank-and-file Union Victory in San Francisco." Pp.70-74 of Radical America, vol.12, no.5, 1978
“Comment on James P. O'Brien, ‘American politics in the 1970s.’” P.76 of Radical America, vol.12, no.2, 1978
"Death in Vietnam: class, poverty, and the risks of war" with Maurice Zeitlin and Kenneth Lutterman. Pp.313-28 of Politics & Society, no.3 (1973). Republished in Zeitlin and Katznelson (below)
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Economic Displacement and Migration in North America” in T. Drobik and M. Sumberova, eds., Chapters of Modern Human Geographical Thought. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholar Publishing, forthcoming 2008.
"Operation Bootstrap" in Darity, William A., Jr. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition. 9 vols. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.
“Preface” to Charles Hardy, Cowboy in Caracas: A North American's Memoir of Venezuela's Democratic Revolution. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2007
“Cambio económico y migración: una investigación comparativa del TLCAN y la Operación Bootstrap en Puerto Rico” in Joaquin Roy, Alejandro Chanona Burgette and Roberto Domínguez Rivera (eds.), La Union Europea y el TLCAN: Integración Regional Comparada y Relaciones Mutuas. Mexico City: Editorial Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2004.
“Intellectual Partnerships and Grudges: Hans Gerth’s Relationship with C. Wright Mills.” In Stanley Aronowitz, ed., C. Wright Mills, volume 2. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004.
"Nuevas Percepciones sobre México en Estados Unidos (1981-1992)" [New Perceptions about Mexico in the United States]. In Eliezer Morales Aragón and Consuelo Dávila Pérez, eds., La Nueva Relación de México con América del Norte. Mexico City: Editorial Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1994.
"Free Trade and Economic Displacement in Mexico." In Rafael Fernández de Castro, Mónica Verea Campos, and Sidney Weintraub, eds., Sectoral Labor Effects of North American Free Trade. Austin: jointly published by The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin, the Centro de Investigaciones sobre Estados Unidos de América of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónoma de México, 1993.
"A borderline case: maquiladora industry in Mexico." In Lee Bowie, Meredith Michaels, and Robert Soloman, eds., Twenty Questions in Philosophy, second edition (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1992). Originally published in The Progressive (below).
"Clases Sociales y el Tratado de Libre Comercio" [Social classes and the free trade treaty] in El Tratado de Libre Comercio: Entre el Viejo y el Nuevo Orden, edited by Monica Gambril and Barbara Driscol. Mexico City: Editorial Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1992. [This article was extensively reported in a front page story in Excelsior (Mexico City), Mexico's newspaper of record.]
"Death in Vietnam: class, poverty, and the risks of war" with Maurice Zeitlin and Kenneth Lutterman. In Maurice Zeitlin, The Large Corporation and Contemporary Classes. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989);.
"A borderline case: maquiladora industry in Mexico." In A. Pablo Iannone, ed., Contemporary Moral Controversies in Business (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989). Originally published in The Progressive (below).
"Death in Vietnam: class, poverty, and the risks of war" with Maurice Zeitlin and Kenneth Lutterman. In Irz Katznelson et al., eds., The Politics & Society Reader (New York: The David McKay Company, 1979).
"Death in Vietnam: class, poverty, and the risks of war" with Maurice Zeitlin and Kenneth Lutterman. In Maurice Zeitlin, ed., American Society Inc, second edition (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1977).
BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS
Power, Daniel Egan and Levon H. Chorbajian, eds., in Humanity & Society, vol. 29, no. 1 (February 2005).
The Paradox of American Unionism by Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah H. Meltz in The American Review of Canadian Studies, Autumn 2005, pp. 547-9.
Between Two Worlds, Hans Gerth by Nobuko Gerth. Contemporary Sociology, vol. 32, no. 5 (September 2004), pp. 655-6.
An Interracial Movement of the Poor by Jennifer Frost. Humanity & Society, October 2002.
Rebels With a Cause (documentary film), by Helen Garvy. Radical Historians Newsletter, number 83, December 2000.
Biography of a Runaway Slave by Miguel Barnet. Socialism and Democracy, vol. 11, no. 2, Fall 1997, pp. 146-150.
Reprinted in Occasional Paper No. 12 of the Latin American Studies Consortium of New England, jointly published by Centers for Latin American Studies at Yale, Brown, University of Connecticut, and University of Massachusetts, November 1997.
Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity by David G. Gutiérrez. International Journal of Race & Ethnic Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, November 1995, pp. 144-146.
Republished in Journal of Developing Societies, vol. 13, no. 2 (1997), pp. 11-13.
Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada by Seymour Martin Lipset. La Jornada Semanal (Mexico City), February 2, 1992.
Max Weber by Frank Parkins; Emile Durkheim by Kenneth Thompson; and Marx and Marxism, by Peter Worsley. Pp.457-58 of Contemporary Sociology, vol.12 (1983).
Lukács, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory by Andrew Feenberg. P.1165 of The Journal of Politics, vol.44, no.4 (1982).
Socialist Ideology by N.B. Bikkenin. Pp.861-62 of Contemporary Sociology, vol.10, no.6 (1981).
Science, Class and Society by Goran Therborn. Pp.960-61 of Social Forces, vol.56, no.3 (1978).
The Working-Class Majority by Andrew Levison. Pp.511-12 of Contemporary Sociology, vol.5 (1976).
The Polish Peasant in Europe and America by W.I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki. In American Labor History: Race and Ethnicity in the Working Class (Boston: New England Free Press, 1974).
NEWSPAPER, MAGAZINE, AND RADIO ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS
Radio Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (AM). Two half-hour radio interviews on Double Standard: Social Policy in Europe and the United States, October 2007.
“Leafleters Have Every Right to Speak Out at Third Thursday,” The Chronicle, Willimantic, CT (op-ed), July 27, 2005, p. 5.
“Privatization Endangers Social Security Moral Value.” (op-ed). The Hartford Courant, February 4, 2005, p. A-11.
“The Politics of Health Care Reform” (op-ed). The Hartford Courant, September 14, 2003, p. C1.
“The Price the Poor Pay for War,” op-ed article, The Hartford Courant, October 22, 2001, p. A7.
“SDS’s Other Wars,” The Nation, vol. 272, no. 8 (March 5, 2001), pp. 30-32.
“Reply to Lemisch and Weisstein,” The Nation, vol. 272, no. 18 (May 7, 2001), p. 2.
"The Death of Cursive," op-ed article, The Hartford Courant, May 4, 2000.
"What Cuba Looks Like Now That Elián is Back," op-ed article, The Hartford Courant, July 17, 2000.
“One-hour radio interview on my book, After the Fifth Sun: Class and Race in North America,” Mexico City, Radio Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, June 4, 1998.
"Assassination Shatters Confidence in Mexican Political Stability," op-ed article, The Hartford Courant, March 30, 1994.
"Marques Haynes Gave Civil Rights Movement a Dunk Shot," op-ed article, The Chronicle (Willimantic, CT), December 7, 1992.
"La Desigualdad Social y la Paz Social" [Social inequality and social peace]. El Día (Mexico City), July, 1992.
"Rescue of Student [in El Salvador] Reveals Ugly Truth." The Oregonian [op-ed], April 16, 1986.
"El Salvador Repression Hardly Over." The Oregonian [op-ed], June 20, 1985.
"Max Weber: Estudioso Atormentado de un Mundo Intranquilo" [Max Weber: Tormented Scholar in a Changing World]. Pp. 40-46 of La Jornada Semanal (Mexico City), no. 161, July 12, 1992.
“One hour radio interview on social effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement.” Radio Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (96.1 FM - Mexico City), September 10 and 17, 1991.
"Libre Comercio y el Pequeño Negocio" [Free trade and small business]. El Financiero (Mexico City) feature article, June 28, 1991.
"Time to Expand, not Attack, Bilingual Education." The New York Times feature article, March 22, 1987.
"Libre Comercio y Concentración de Capital en México" [Free Trade and Concentration of Capital in Mexico], La Jornada Semanal (Mexico City), April 19, 1992.
"El banquete de los ricos" [The banquet of the rich]. La Jornada Semanal (Mexico City), April 19, 1992.
"Back in the Streets" [report from El Salvador]. P.19 of The Progressive, vol.49, July, 1985.
"A borderline case: maquiladora industry in Mexico." Pp.34-7 in The Progressive, vol.48, no.4 (April 1984). Republished in Business and Society Review, Iannone, and Bowie, Michaels, and Soloman (above).
"Missing: Political Disappearances in Mexico" [report from Mexico]. P.19 of The Progressive, vol.46, no.7, July, 1982.
"Pastoral Letter of the Nicaraguan Episcopate." Translated from Spanish, P.623 of The Nation, vol.231, 1980.
SAND SPRINGS, OKLAHOMA CIVIL RIGHTS PAPERS
Report on Project to Desegregate the Sand Springs, Oklahoma Public Schools, prepared for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), August 18, 1964.
"Marques Haynes Gave Civil Rights Movement a Dunk Shot," The Chronicle, Willimantic, CT, December y, 1992, p. 8.