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Dr. John Asimakopoulos

Sholar-Activist, Organic Intellectual

Bio

John Asimakopoulos is executive director of the scholar-activist Transformative Studies Institute (TSI) and Associate Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York. He also edits Theory in Action, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal. His work focuses on labor, globalization, and sociological theory. He is currently working with one of the most underprivileged populations in the United States at the Bronx campus of the City University of New York.

His publications include articles and books focusing on the history of social movements and how they can inform a new global working class movement for the ushering of epochal change toward a just society. His works champion the formation of a counter-ideology, independent working class media and educational institutions, and direct action toward this end. He is currently working with his colleagues at TSI to establish a new free and progressive university operated by scholar-activists.

John’s interest in the working-class stems from his parents who obtained only third grade educations. They worked as landless farmers in Greece and later as immigrant factory workers in the United States. Early on in life, John observed that his parents’ hard work was never rewarded pushing him to think of social justice. Ever since, he has dedicated his life to promoting equality and social justice for all peoples.

PUBLICATIONS

The Civil Rights Movement: a Model for Labor Today. Manuscript under review.

Revolt! The Next Great Transformation from Kleptocracy Capitalism to Libertarian Socialism Through Counter-Ideology, Societal Education, Independent Media, & Direct Action. Book, forthcoming, 2010.

An Economy of Sustainability. Book, forthcoming, 2010. John Asimakopoulos, Deric Shannon, & Anthony J. Nocella, II (Eds.). Oakland: AK Press.

The Role of Free Universities in Creating Free Societies. 2009. In Anthony J. Nocella II, Steven Best, and Peter McLaren (eds.), Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex. AK Press.

Globally Segmented Labor Markets. 2009. Critical Sociology, 35(2):175-198.

Transnational Labor Organizing. 2008. Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Ed. John Hartwell Moore, 3:152-54. Detroit: Macmillan Reference.

Counter Ideology and Evolutionary Change: A Proposal for a Research and Political Action Program. 2008. Theory in Action, 1(1):1-22.

Deviance. 2008. In Vincent N. Parrillo (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Sage Publications.

Social Stratification. 2008. In Vincent N. Parrillo (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Sage Publications.

Societal Education, Direct Action, and Working-Class Gains. 2007. Journal of Poverty, 11(2):1-22.

The Private Property Elephant. 2006. In McDonough, Terrence, Michael Reich, David M. Kotz, and Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez (eds.) Growth and Crisis: Social Structure of Accumulation: Theory and Analysis. Galway, Ireland: Centre for Innovation & Structural Change.

Labor, Loyalty, Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners & World War I by Carl R. Weinberg [Book Review]. 2006. Labor History Journal 47(3):472-74.

Economic Civil Disobedience. 2006. Infoshop. http://www.infoshop.org

Comparative Analysis of European and American Working Class Attainments: Equality, Living Standards, and Social Structures of Accumulation. 2000. Dissertation Abstracts International. (UMI No. 5227326)

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