Michael Dreiling
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
1291 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1291
Phone: 541-346-5025
Fax: 541-346-5026
e-mail: dreiling@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Spring 2003 Office Hours:

M W 11-11:45, F 2:00-3:00 , 740 PLC

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Areas: Sociology of work and labor; environmental sociology; collective action/social movements; social network analysis.
Research Activities: Social movements and NAFTA; 3-D representations on corporate leadership and class formation; race/ethnicity in class formation and environmental change; network analysis of collective action and institutional change.

Courses Sociology and Social Theory Corporate Power & Inequality Personal Favorites Vita

Course Related Links

Dreiling's Current Courses

Previous Courses

Workers, Consumers and the Global Economy -- A Wayne Morse Chair Sponsored Class

SOC 410 - Noviolent Social Change
Sociology 204 - An Intro to Sociology
American Society: Soc. 301
Labor as a Social Movement: Soc. 446/546
Social Issues and Movements: Soc. 313
Work and Occupations: Soc. 346

Other University of Oregon Related URLs

The University of Oregon Library System
Calendars of Events at UO
UofO Social Science Library Resources
Oregon Survey Research Lab
Social Science Instructional Lab
The Labor Education and Research Center
The Environmental Studies Program
Ethnic Studies
Center for the Study of Women in Society
Women's Studies
International Studies

Social Movements at the End of the 20th Century

The Institute for Global Communications -- From LaborNet to EcoNet, the IGC is the cyberhome for many progressive movement organizations. From here, you can hook into Greenpeace, WomensNET, the international labor movement, and movements throughout the world.

Understanding Conflict and Change in Modern Society

Sociology and Social Theory Links

Social Science Information Gateway -- SOSIG is an online catalogue of hundreds of high quality Internet resources relevant to social science education and research.
U.S. Census Bureau

American Sociological Association -- national organization for professional sociologists
Timeline of Sociology -- from birth to present
Academic Guide to the Internet --
Population Studies Center -- Michigan
ICPSR --
Socioweb --

And to the Left...

Progressive Sociologist Network
The Red Feather Institute -- For integrating praxis and knowledge.
Monthly Review Press --
The Marx and Engels Online Library, Site on Marxism-Leninism, and Marxism --
Network Analysis --
World Systems --
Union for Radical Political Economics --

Corporate Power and Inequality

A Brief on the Long-term Decline in Incomes and Since the Mid-1980s

Social Inequality and Poverty: Class, Race, Gender, and Nation
Left Business Observer: Nice, thorough overview of Income & poverty
Wealth Inequality -- How the Pie is Sliced
Corporate Watch -- A must!
Rat Haus reality - some incredible stuff on "life out of balance"; see page on Corporate Governance.
Multinational Monitor -- Great international news on corporations and their discontents.
Left Business Observer -- For all the economic news that Wall Street prefers hidden.
The Nation -- Great investigative journalism, uncovering much that mass media covers-up.

A link to an early test of my 3-dimensional Corporate Power Structure gallery (under construction)

Personal Favorites

To the Left:
CoopAmerica - Practical Actions for Social Change
The Better World Handbook Site

·Students and Labor at Oregon

·On Labor, Environmental, LabourStart

·Coalitions Against Free Trade -- RMALC, CTC and Public Citizen, Council of Canadians

Third World Network -- This is cutting edge

·United for a Fair Economy -- Great source of current
income differentials for workers, CEOs, and other economic data

·Economic Policy InstituteThe Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy

·Electronic Policy Network

·Dollars and Sense

·Institute for Policy StudiesAt a time when other think tanks celebrate the virtues of unrestrained greed, unlimited wealth, and unregulated markets, IPS is striving to create a more responsible society - one built around the values of justice, nonviolence, sustainability, and decency. IPS, as I.F. Stone once said, is "an Institute for the rest of us."

·Alliance for Democracyis a new Populist movement --- not a political party --- setting forth to end the domination of our economy, our government, our culture, our media and the environment by large corporations.

·Critical Views on Corporate Media, or what is commonly known as entertainment and news.

·The Gatherings for Humanity against Neoliberalism and
The National Commission for Democracy in Mexico

·American Indian Movement

·Anarchist Archive

·Global Resource Bank a concept??
Idealist - Directory of nonprofit and volunteering resources on the Web, with information provided by 16,000 organizations in 130 countries. An online library of Resources for Nonprofit Managers, with information about computing and the Internet, fundraising and volunteering, accounting and management, legal issues and nonprofit support organizations.

Politics Today:

World Conditions - updated info on global crises and possibilities

·Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future - peace media source

·Center for NonViolent Communication

·Co-Intelligence Institute

·The Center for Millennial Studies - with Y2K Links

·Political news

·This Modern World

·Recent Speech by Bill Fletcher, on the need to return to class analysis and politics.

·On Knowledge and Action. The Noam Chomsky Archive.

·Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

Balancing Inner and Outer: