Aaron Major
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Major |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Major |
| SIGNATURE | MAJOR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8010-1028 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cooperation, Black Populism, and the Dilemma of Du Bois's Racial Theory
Double-consciousness has, for Du Bois, a dual meaning. It is both the experience of always seeing oneself through the eyes of the dominant race as an inferior, subjugated person and the experience of seeing the possibilities of a life free of racial hierarchy while living in a world defined by such hierarchy. By posing the duality of double-consciousness, Du Bois gave himself a problem that he spent much of his life grappling with: how does a lif…
Race, Labor and Postbellum Capitalism in Du Bois's 'The Negro Worker in America
In 1906, W.E.B. Du Bois published an article 'L'Ouvrier Negre en Amerique' ('The Negro Worker in America') which draws from original survey data and historical analysis to develop a theory of Black labors' structural disadvantage in post Civil War US capitalism. 'L'Ouvrier Negre en Amerique' has essentially been forgotten. It has been accessible only to French speakers and has yet to be the subject of analysis or commentary. It deserves the full …
W.E.B. Du Bois (1906), ‘L’Ouvrier Negre en Amérique [The Negro Worker in America]’, Revue Économique Internationale , 3
Militarized Global Apartheid
Bending the Arc
The Political-Military Foundations of China’s Global Ascendency
In recent years China has positioned itself as a global economic leader, working through its “Belt and Road” initiative (BRI) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), to not only expand its global economic reach, but to organize and lead global economic relations. China’s rise is largely understood in economic terms, but the history of global power dynamics suggests that such leadership is built on both economic and political-military fou…
Tokens of Power
The New Capitalist Rich
Why, in the United States, are the rich so rich? Some argue that income inequality is driven by the growing salaries of top managers relative to the stagnating wages of mainline workers, and others argue that it is driven by an even more unequal distribution of wealth. Missing from this debate is a striking feature of US inequality: since the mid-1980s, a growing portion of very high incomes have come from pass-through businesses. These hybrid bu…
Crisis and Commonwealth
Plastic Money
The Adversarial Politics of Fiscal Federalism
When and how do tax regimes become sites of social protest and support broader movements of social policy reform? This question has drawn increasing interest from political sociologists and political scientists who have looked at the ways in which tax regimes create political cleavages that create the foundations for major shifts in state policy making or become the focal points of collective identity formation, leading to “tax protests.” In this…
Transnational State Formation and the Global Politics of Austerity
A perennial concern among scholars of globalization is the relationship between global social formations and national and subnational political and economic developments. While sociological understanding of 'the global' has become increasingly rich, stressing the complex relationship between material and cultural pressures, an undertheorized nation state often sits on the receiving end of the sociologist's model of globalization. The goal of this…
Neoliberalism and the new international financial architecture
This paper theorizes about the new international financial architecture as a manifestation of the ‘second face of neoliberalism’ – financial market reregulation through technocratic obfuscation and insularity from democratic political pressure. Using a more expansive definition of the new international financial architecture, one that includes the institutional nexus of international monetary management along with the rules and regulatory bodies …
World Culture and Transnational Economic Governance
The current global financial crisis has led to renewed efforts to strengthen the formal rules and organizations of transnational economic governance. A substantial body of research in sociology and related fields suggests that the informal norms, values, expectations, and ideas that make up a world culture are equally important for understanding why countries cooperate, and why those cooperative efforts sometimes fail. This article explores these…
Social Insurance and Social Justice
Which Revolution in Military Affairs
Since the arrival of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, the discourse of American military strategy has been framed around a Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). This article takes up the question of whether the RMA discourse represents a real strategic shift through an examination of the distribution of Defense Department spending on procurement across economic sectors and geographical space for the period 1990 to 2004. Detailed analysis of procure…
Markets and knowledge
Journal Article Markets and knowledge: a review of Robert Shiller's The Subprime Solution and George Soros's The New Paradigm for Financial Markets Get access Aaron Major Aaron Major Sociology Department, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA Correspondence:[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio-Economic Review, Volume 7, Issue 2, April 2009, Pages 369–374, ht…
The fall and rise of financial capital
In an effort to protect a rapidly eroding international payments accounts balance, American policy makers pursued a capital controls program through much of the 1960s, contrary to the interests of private finance. How can we explain this outcome when, through much of the postwar period, private finance appears to have been well served by the state's foreign and domestic economic policy? This paper argues that, in responding to international press…
Neoliberalism and the new international financial architecture
This paper theorizes about the new international financial architecture as a manifestation of the ‘second face of neoliberalism’ – financial market reregulation through technocratic obfuscation and insularity from democratic political pressure. Using a more expansive definition of the new international financial architecture, one that includes the institutional nexus of international monetary management along with the rules and regulatory bodies …
Transnational State Formation and the Global Politics of Austerity
A perennial concern among scholars of globalization is the relationship between global social formations and national and subnational political and economic developments. While sociological understanding of 'the global' has become increasingly rich, stressing the complex relationship between material and cultural pressures, an undertheorized nation state often sits on the receiving end of the sociologist's model of globalization. The goal of this…
The fall and rise of financial capital
In an effort to protect a rapidly eroding international payments accounts balance, American policy makers pursued a capital controls program through much of the 1960s, contrary to the interests of private finance. How can we explain this outcome when, through much of the postwar period, private finance appears to have been well served by the state's foreign and domestic economic policy? This paper argues that, in responding to international press…
Militarized Global Apartheid
The Political-Military Foundations of China’s Global Ascendency
In recent years China has positioned itself as a global economic leader, working through its “Belt and Road” initiative (BRI) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), to not only expand its global economic reach, but to organize and lead global economic relations. China’s rise is largely understood in economic terms, but the history of global power dynamics suggests that such leadership is built on both economic and political-military fou…
Crisis and Commonwealth
Which Revolution in Military Affairs
Since the arrival of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, the discourse of American military strategy has been framed around a Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). This article takes up the question of whether the RMA discourse represents a real strategic shift through an examination of the distribution of Defense Department spending on procurement across economic sectors and geographical space for the period 1990 to 2004. Detailed analysis of procure…
Markets and knowledge
Journal Article Markets and knowledge: a review of Robert Shiller's The Subprime Solution and George Soros's The New Paradigm for Financial Markets Get access Aaron Major Aaron Major Sociology Department, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA Correspondence:[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio-Economic Review, Volume 7, Issue 2, April 2009, Pages 369–374, ht…
The fall and rise of financial capital
In an effort to protect a rapidly eroding international payments accounts balance, American policy makers pursued a capital controls program through much of the 1960s, contrary to the interests of private finance. How can we explain this outcome when, through much of the postwar period, private finance appears to have been well served by the state's foreign and domestic economic policy? This paper argues that, in responding to international press…
Which Revolution in Military Affairs
Since the arrival of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, the discourse of American military strategy has been framed around a Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). This article takes up the question of whether the RMA discourse represents a real strategic shift through an examination of the distribution of Defense Department spending on procurement across economic sectors and geographical space for the period 1990 to 2004. Detailed analysis of procure…
World Culture and Transnational Economic Governance
The current global financial crisis has led to renewed efforts to strengthen the formal rules and organizations of transnational economic governance. A substantial body of research in sociology and related fields suggests that the informal norms, values, expectations, and ideas that make up a world culture are equally important for understanding why countries cooperate, and why those cooperative efforts sometimes fail. This article explores these…
Social Insurance and Social Justice
Neoliberalism and the new international financial architecture
This paper theorizes about the new international financial architecture as a manifestation of the ‘second face of neoliberalism’ – financial market reregulation through technocratic obfuscation and insularity from democratic political pressure. Using a more expansive definition of the new international financial architecture, one that includes the institutional nexus of international monetary management along with the rules and regulatory bodies …
Transnational State Formation and the Global Politics of Austerity
A perennial concern among scholars of globalization is the relationship between global social formations and national and subnational political and economic developments. While sociological understanding of 'the global' has become increasingly rich, stressing the complex relationship between material and cultural pressures, an undertheorized nation state often sits on the receiving end of the sociologist's model of globalization. The goal of this…
The Adversarial Politics of Fiscal Federalism
When and how do tax regimes become sites of social protest and support broader movements of social policy reform? This question has drawn increasing interest from political sociologists and political scientists who have looked at the ways in which tax regimes create political cleavages that create the foundations for major shifts in state policy making or become the focal points of collective identity formation, leading to “tax protests.” In this…
Plastic Money
Crisis and Commonwealth
The New Capitalist Rich
Why, in the United States, are the rich so rich? Some argue that income inequality is driven by the growing salaries of top managers relative to the stagnating wages of mainline workers, and others argue that it is driven by an even more unequal distribution of wealth. Missing from this debate is a striking feature of US inequality: since the mid-1980s, a growing portion of very high incomes have come from pass-through businesses. These hybrid bu…
The Political-Military Foundations of China’s Global Ascendency
In recent years China has positioned itself as a global economic leader, working through its “Belt and Road” initiative (BRI) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), to not only expand its global economic reach, but to organize and lead global economic relations. China’s rise is largely understood in economic terms, but the history of global power dynamics suggests that such leadership is built on both economic and political-military fou…
Tokens of Power
Bending the Arc
W.E.B. Du Bois (1906), ‘L’Ouvrier Negre en Amérique [The Negro Worker in America]’, Revue Économique Internationale , 3
Militarized Global Apartheid
Race, Labor and Postbellum Capitalism in Du Bois's 'The Negro Worker in America
In 1906, W.E.B. Du Bois published an article 'L'Ouvrier Negre en Amerique' ('The Negro Worker in America') which draws from original survey data and historical analysis to develop a theory of Black labors' structural disadvantage in post Civil War US capitalism. 'L'Ouvrier Negre en Amerique' has essentially been forgotten. It has been accessible only to French speakers and has yet to be the subject of analysis or commentary. It deserves the full …
Cooperation, Black Populism, and the Dilemma of Du Bois's Racial Theory
Double-consciousness has, for Du Bois, a dual meaning. It is both the experience of always seeing oneself through the eyes of the dominant race as an inferior, subjugated person and the experience of seeing the possibilities of a life free of racial hierarchy while living in a world defined by such hierarchy. By posing the duality of double-consciousness, Du Bois gave himself a problem that he spent much of his life grappling with: how does a lif…
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