Zweig | Department of Economics

CONTACT INFORMATION

E-mail:
michael.zweig@stonybrook.edu

Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2023).
The Working Class Majority: America’s Best Kept Secret (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000; 2nd ed., 2012; Turkish translation, 2016)
What’s Class Got to Do with It? American Society in the Twenty-first Century (ed.) (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004; Turkish translation, 2016).
Religion and Economic Justice (ed.) (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991; Vietnamese translation, 2022).

Producer, Light from the Darkness: The New Iraqi Labor Law (2016).
Producer, Director, Iraqi Marshes: Beauty and Civilization in Danger (2014).
Writer, Director, Co-producer, Why Are We in Afghanistan? (Center for Study of Working Class Life, 2009)
Executive Producer, Writer, Meeting Face to Face: the Iraq–U.S. Labor Solidarity Tour (2006; International Edition, 2007).

“White Working-Class Voters and the Future of Progressive Politics,” New Labor Forum, May 2017.
“Rethinking Class and Contemporary Working-Class Studies,” Journal of Working Class Studies, Vol. 1 No. 1, Dec. 2016.
“Complicating Labor Markets as Social Institutions,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 47, No. 4, Winter 2015.
“Working for Global Justice in the New Labor Movement,” WorkingUSA, Vol. 17, No. 2, June 2014. Reprinted in Kim Scipes (ed.), Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization, Haymarket Press, 2016.
“Iraqi Unions and Their American Allies,” International Labor and Working Class History, No. 78, Fall 2010.
“The Place of Marx in Class Studies,” Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 14, No. 3, Fall 2002.
“Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: A New Design for Introductory Economics” (with William Dawes), The American Economist, Vol. 44, No. 2, Fall 2000.

“The Mutual Determination of Class and Race in the United States” in Michele Fazio, Christie Launius, and Tim Strangleman (eds.), International Handbook of Working Class Studies, Routledge, 2021.
“The Working Class Majority” (Occupy Wall Street talk, 2011), in Frances Goldin et al. (eds.), Imagine Living in a Socialist USA, Harper Perennial, 2014.
“Six Points on Class,” in Michael Yates (ed.), Aspects of Class in the United States, Monthly Review Press, 2007.
“Class as a Question in Economics,” in John Russo and Sherry Lee Linkon (eds.), New Working-Class Studies, Cornell University Press, 2005. [Translated into Chinese in The Journal of Shanghai Administration Institute, March 2007]
“The Challenge of Working Class Studies,” in Michael Zweig (ed.), What’s Class Got to Do with It?, Cornell University Press, 2004.

“Working Class Politics in the Current Moment,” Michael Zweig in conversation with Amy Goodman, October 15, 2025 - sponsored by Brooklyn For Peace.
Michael Zweig on The American Dream - with Bill Moyers, October 17, 2008.
Michael Zweig (and Bill Fletcher, Jr.) with Bill Moyers, October 15, 2009.
Michael Zweig on the Working Class, conversation with Bill Moyers, October 17, 2008.