The Editors. 2020. “Statement of Support for Black Lives Matter and Defund the Police,” Marxist Sociology Blog, 12 June.

Vidal, Matt. 2018. “Was the gravedigger thesis central to Marx’s theory of the working class?,” Marxist Sociology Blog, 12 Oct.

           Also published in:

Jacobin, 29 Oct.

Gazete Karinca, 2 Nov (Turkish).

MR Online, 23 Nov.

Terrabayt, 19 Feb 2021 (Turkish).

Bir Dünya Çeviri, 5 May 2023 (Turkish).

Jacobin Greece, 23, Oct 2023 (Greek).

Vidal, Matt. 2018. “Do managers maximize efficiency?,” Work in Progress, 29 Sept.

Vidal, Matt. 2016. “Private sector management practices don’t work in welfare services,” LSE Business Review 24 May.

           Also published on Work in Progress, 26 May.

           Also published on USAPP – United States Politics and Policy, 27 May

Vidal, Matt. 2016. “What’s behind the rise in income inequality – Technology or class struggle?” Work in Progress 15 March.

           Also published on Counterpunch, 17 March

           Also published by Unite (NZ), 21 March.

           Also published in Dialogue, Special Report: Working Class History Month, KCL   Politics Society

Vidal, Matt. 2015. “The gulf between management theory and reality: Problems (and solutions) from the American manufacturing heartland,” Work in Progress, 11 Nov.

Vidal, Matt. 2015. “Is Walmart the new Ford – and does its wage hike signal a turning point in the US labor market?” Work in Progress, 13 April.

           Also published on Counterpunch, 14 April.

Vidal, Matt. 2014. “Can you elaborate on that? Why the qualitative / quantitative distinction is fundamentally important for social science,” Work in Progress, Dec 8.

           Also published on the LSE Impact Blog Dec 12.

Vidal, Matt. 2014. “No Political Economy in the Future of Organizational Sociology?” Work in Progress, November 21.

Vidal, Matt. 2014. “American workers deserve mandatory paid vacation! (Europeans get four weeks.),” Work in Progress, June 23.

           Also published on Counterpunch, June 24.

Vidal, Matt. 2014. “Politics of Social Science,” Work in Progress, March 7.

           Also published on Counterpunch, March 10.

Vidal, Matt. 2013. “Did technology wreck the American middle class?” Work in Progress, November 22.

Vidal, Matt. 2013. “National income has increasingly gone to profits instead of wages, leading to slower GDP growth,” Work in Progress, April 15.

Vidal, Matt. 2012. “Education, Skills and the Servant Economy,” Work in Progress, Nov 27.

Vidal, Matt. 2012. “America’s Newspaper of Record Continues to Ignore Sociologists on Jobs, Inequality,” Work in Progress, Oct 25.

           Also published at NYTimes eXaminer on Oct 26.

Vidal, Matt. 2012. “A Luddite, An Economist and a Marxist Walk Into a Modern Factory …,” Work in Progress, Oct 8.

Vidal, Matt. 2012. “Can Caring Capitalists or Progressive Policies Save the American Economy?” MRZine, September 16.

Vidal, Matt. 2012. “Creative Workers or Servants? Apple’s American Workforce and the Service Economy,” Work in Progress, June 29.

Also published at Counterpunch, June 29 and at NYTimes eXaminer on June 30.

Vidal, Matt. 2012. “Apple economics: Maximize profit, minimize employment,” Work in Progress, May 3.

Also published, as “What’s Good for Apple is Not Good for the Country,” Counterpunch, May 4.

Vidal, Matt. 2012.“Rich Reporting and Thin Analysis in Adam Davidson’s Pop Economics,” Work in Progress, February 20.

Vidal, Matt. 2011.“The Sociology of Work,” Everyday Sociology, November 7.

Vidal, Matt. 2011. “The Mythology of Steve Jobs,” Work in Progress, November 2.

Vidal, Matt. 2011. “Blood money, inefficiency in “free market” supply chains,” Work in Progress, October 25.

Vidal, Matt. 2011. “Nurses with doctorates, professional autonomy and the social construction of skill,” Work in Progress, October 17.

Vidal, Matt. 2009. “Unions and Job Quality: Why Card Check Would Help the Economy,” Counterpunch, April 10/12.

Vidal, Matt. 2009. “The Financial Crisis and the Real Economy: Beyond the Keynesian Fix,” MRZine, February 17.

Vidal, Matt. 2008. “Bailouts and the Shadow Banking System: So Much for the Self-Regulating Market,” Counterpunch, March 26.

Vidal, Matt. 2007. "From 'No Child Left Behind' to No Child Left Insured: Squaring the Circle on Children and Health Care," Counterpunch, October 15.

Vidal, Matt. 2007. "Hooray for the Market! Subprime Lending and Shady Mortgages," Counterpunch, August 31.

Vidal, Matt. 2006. “Drug Pushers, Inc.: Profit and Power in the Legal Drug Trade,” Counterpunch, December 7.

Vidal, Matt. 2006. “Republican Bliss: The Selfish Road to Happiness,” Counterpunch, April 5, Also published on Common Dreams News Center, April 6.

Vidal, Matt. 2005. “Aim State Incentives at Best Factories,” guest editorial, Wisconsin State Journal, October 28.

Vidal, Matt. 2005. “Capital, Power and Class: A Response to David Brooks on ‘Pillars of Cultural Capital,’” Counterpunch, October 12.

Vidal, Matt. 2005. “Bush’s Legacy: Dead Bodies, Dead Wrong, Dead Logic,” Counterpunch, April 6.

    Also published at The Smirking Chimp, April 7, 2005; and at The Palestine Chronicle, April 8.

Vidal, Matt. 2004. “Globalization and Economic Inequality: A Look at the Numbers,” Counterpunch, November 29.

Vidal, Matt. 2004. “American Myopia: More Money in Your Pocket,” Counterpunch, October 19.

Vidal, Matt. 2004. “The Foundation for Greater Prosperity? Beyond Bush’s Rhetoric on the Economy,” Counterpunch, August 31.

Vidal, Matt. 2004. “Fractured Franchise: Electability, Spoilers and the Poverty of American Democracy,” Left Turn, June/July.

Vidal, Matt. 2004. “Putting Economic Sociology into Public Practice,” Accounts: a newsletter of economic sociology Vol. 4/2, Spring (with Josh Whitford).

Vidal, Matt. 2004. “WMC Eats Its Own: The Politics of Tax Cuts,” The Wisconsinite, April 27.

Vidal, Matt. 2004. “The Poverty of American Democracy: Of Spoilers and Electability,” Counterpunch, March 27/28.

Vidal, Matt. 2003. “Denial and Deception: Before and Beyond ‘Iraqi Freedom,’” Counterpunch, December 2.

Vidal, Matt. 2003. “Of Monopolies and Hypocrisy: Corporate Media and the Free Market,” Counterpunch, May 19.

Vidal, Matt. 2003. “George W. Bonaparte: The Renunciation of Leadership,” Counterpunch, Feb 28.

Vidal, Matt. 2002. “The ‘Corporate Ethics’ Red Herring,” Counterpunch, July 12, 2002.

          Also published in Parallax: The Journal of Ethics and Globalization, October. 

Vidal, Matt. 2002. “The Twisted World of Thomas Friedman,” Counterpunch, April 9.