It started with this at Fordham University in 1986. I'm now a PhD as of April 2004, when I completed my dissertation at the University of Hawaii on  The Discourse of Workers Democracy as a Terrain of Ideological Struggle in the Moment of Transition from State Socialism in China. That dissertation is now being turned into a book titled Workers' Democracy and China's Transition from State-Socialism, to be published by Routledge in 2008.  A taste of the book can be found in an  article in the July, 2007  edition of Socialism and Democracy.  An interview I conducted with Chinese Economist Han Deqiang on "The Social Costs of Neo-Liberalism in China"  was translated and published in the July, 2007 edition of Dollars and Sense. I also recently co-wrote a piece with Chinese Labor activist Chi Hua responding to Robert Weil on issues of working class organization in China, published at ZNET.

 When I wasn't teaching, studying, or swimming in Hawaii, This is what I did. Today, I'm involved in similar activity in the form of the Twin Cities Regional Academics for Labor Solidarity Committee

I  lived for a period of 5 years in Taiwan and almost 2 years in Mainland China researching the impact of privatization (and more broadly Globalization) on workers across the Straits. I have spent much time interviewing laid-off workers and labor movement organizers-supporters throughout Mainland China.

I currently reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota, home of one of a number of midwest labor union movement activism bright spots . In fall 2006, I am an assistant professor of social theory in the Sociology  and Anthropology Department at  St. Cloud State University

I contribute to Monthly Review's Webzine with columns on topics such as   Privatization and the Failure of US Occupation in Iraq ,   A Critical Review of So-Called "Sustainable Dialogues" on American Campuses , my  interview with the adminstrator of the China Workers Website, and my most recent interview with Jerry Lembcke on the Myth of Spat On Vietnam Vets. At Counterpunch, I wrote a piece titled "Illegal?" Hey Lou Dobbs, Do Ya Really Wanna Go There?"  I also recently wrote a little piece for ZNet that I called "Interrupting Neal Conan's Poker Game"

My most recent interview with Jerry Lembcke on Conspiracy Theory, Fears of Betrayal, and the Antiwar Movement

Academic writings that I have published in the last two years include 1) a chapter contribution to the The ASA Teaching Guide for Critical Pedagogy in the Sociology Classroom, cowritten with St. Cloud State Sociology colleague Linda Mhando, in which we criticise the Smorgasbord approach to teaching about race and 2) an article in doing field research on workers' protests against privatization in Mainland China, published in Humanity and Society in November, 2005. See publications page for these two and others or click them on below:

Field Research Encounters with Chinese Workers Protesting Privatization  Humanity and Society Nov 2005
From Smorgasbord Pedagogy to Critical Pedagogy: Rethinking How we Teach Race  Published in Critical Pedagogy in the Classroom, Peter Kaufman, ed. [ASA Resource Materials for Teaching Series]. 2006