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Marc Dixon


Contact Information:

Office: 423 Bellamy
Phone: 645-2439
Fax: 644-6208
Email: mdixon@fsu.edu

Areas of Specialization:

Research:

  • Sociology of Work and Labor
  • Collective Behavior and Social Movements
  • Political Sociology

Teaching:

  • Sociological Theory
  • Sociology of Work
  • Historical Sociology

Education and Recent Professional Experience:

  • Ph.D., Sociology, Ohio State University, 2005

Selected Papers and Publications:

  • Dixon, Marc. "Movements, Countermovements, and Policy Adoption: The Case of Right-to-Work Activism." Social Forces (forthcoming).
  • Dixon, Marc. "Limiting Labor: Business Political Mobilization and Union Setback in the States." Journal of Policy History (forthcoming).
  • Van Dyke, Nella, Marc Dixon and Helen Van Allen. "Manufacturing Dissent: Labor Revitalization, Union Summer, and Student Protest." Social Forces (forthcoming).
  • Jacobs, David and Marc Dixon. 2006. "The Politics of Labor-Management Relations: Detecting the Conditions that Affect Changes in Right-to-Work Laws." Social Problems 53:118-137.
  • Dixon, Marc, Vincent J. Roscigno and Randy Hodson. 2004. "Unions, Solidarity, and Striking." Social Forces 83: 3-33.
  • Dixon, Marc and Vincent J. Roscigno. 2003. "Status, Networks, and Social Movement Participation: The Case of Striking Workers." American Journal of Sociology 108: 1292 - 1327.

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