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Richard P. Appelbaum, PhD (1981*) Santa Barbara, California
PhD , University of Chicago, 1971

Books, Monographs, and Edited Collections:

• Introduction to Sociology, 7th edition (with Anthony Giddens and Mitchell Duneier), WW Norton, 2008 forthcoming;
• TNCs and the Removal of Textiles and Clothing Quotas, Geneva, Switzerland: UNCTAD;
• Critical Globalization Studies (ed. with William I. Robinson), NY: Routledge (2004);
• Introduction to Global Studies: Politics and Economics (ed.), Kendall Hunt, 2004;
• Rules and Networks: The Legal Culture of Global Business Transactions (ed. with William L.F. Felstiner and Volkmar Gessner), Oxford, England: Hart, 2001;
• Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry (with Edna Bonacich). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000;
• States and Development in the Asian-Pacific Rim (ed. with Jeffrey Henderson), Sage, 1992;
• Rethinking Rental Housing (with John I. Gilderbloom), Temple University Press, 1988;
• Karl Marx, Sage, 1988;
• Size, Growth, and U.S. Cities, Praeger 1978;
• The Impacts of Urban Growth (coauthor), Praeger, 1976;
• Theories of Social Change, Rand McNally, 1970

Dr. Appelbaum is also the author of more than one hundred articles, chapters, and opinion pieces. He is cofounder and editor emeritus (with Jeffrey Henderson) of Competition and Change: The Journal of Global Business and Political Economy (Maney Publishing).

Awards: Grants from the National Science Foundation, Haynes Foundation, U.C. Pacific Rim Program, California Policy Association; Chapter Award from the American Planning Association; Douglas McGregor Award for Excellence in Behavioral Science Research. Most recent NSF grants: Center for Nanotechnology in Society (www.cns.ucsb.edu); Center for Spatially Enabled Social Sciences (www.csiss.org); SPACE (Spatial Perspectives on Analysis for Curriculum Enhancement, www.csiss.org/SPACE).

Memberships: American Sociological Association; Pacific Sociological Association.

Special Interests: global political economy and world systems; labor markets and global production; East Asia in the Global Economy; technology and development.

Related Professional Activities: Professor of Sociology and Global & International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; Codirector, Center for Global Studies, UCSB; Executive Committee, Center for Nanotechnology in Society.