Vidal, Matt. 2022. Management Divided: Contradictions of labor management. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Vidal, Matt, Tony Smith, Tomás Rotta and Paul Prew (eds). 2019. The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hauptmeier, Marco, and Matt Vidal (eds). 2014. Comparative Political Economy of Work. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Vidal, Matt, and David Kusnet. 2009. Organizing Prosperity: Union Effects on Job Quality, Community Betterment, and Industry Standards. Washington DC: Economic Policy Institute.

Vidal, Matt. 2024. “From Labour Process Theory to Organisational Political Economy: A Response to Benassi, Ikeler, and Wood,” Critical Sociology 50,2: 351-366.

Vidal, Matt. 2023. “The forces of production, lean production and management: a reply to Bob Carter,” International Socialism 180: 143-162.

Vidal, Matt. 2022. “Which way forward for labor?” Catalyst 6,2: 134-150.  

Vidal, Matt. 2022. “Routine politics of production in postfordist manufacturing,” Work in the Global Economy 2,1: 63-87.  

Vidal, Matt. 2022. “The politics of lean production,” Catalyst 5,4: 32-69.

Vidal, Matt. 2019. “Contradictions of the labour process, worker empowerment and capitalist inefficiency,” Historical Materialism 20,2: 170-204.

           Translated into Spanish and published as:

           Vidal, Matt. 2021. “Contradicciones del proceso de trabajo, empoderamiento de trabajadores/as e ineficiencia capitalista,” in Maurizio Atzeni, Rodolfo Elbert, Clara Marticorena, Jerónimo Montero Bressán y Julia Soul (Eds), Clase, proceso de trabajo y reproducción social: ampliando las perspectivas de los estudios laborales. Buenos Aires: Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales (CEIL).

Vidal, Matt. 2018. “Was Marx wrong about the working class? Reconsidering the gravedigger thesis,” International Socialism 158: 65-80.

Vidal, Matt. 2017. “Lean Enough: Institutional Logics of Best Practice and Managerial Satisficing in American Manufacturing,” Socius 3: 1-17.  

Esbenshade, Jill, Matt Vidal, Gina Fascilla and Mariko Ono. 2015. “Customer-Driven Management Models for Choiceless Clientele? Business Process Reengineering in a California Welfare Agency,” Work, Employment & Society 30,1: 77-96.

Vidal, Matt, Paul Adler and Rick Delbridge 2015. “When Organization Studies Turns to Societal Problems: The Contribution of Marxist Grand Theory,” Organization Studies 26,4: 405-422.

Vidal, Matt. 2013. “Postfordism as a Dysfunctional Accumulation Regime: A Comparative Analysis of the US, UK and Germany,” Work, Employment & Society 27,3: 451-471.

Vidal, Matt. 2013. “Low-Autonomy Work and Bad Jobs in Postfordist Capitalism,” Human Relations 66,4: 587-612.

Vidal, Matt. 2012. “On the Persistence of Labor Market Insecurity and Slow Growth in the US: Reckoning with the Waltonist Growth Regime,” New Political Economy 17,5: 543-564.

Vidal, Matt. 2011. “Reworking Postfordism: Labor Process versus Employment Relations,” Sociology Compass 5,4: 273-286.

Vidal, Matt, and Leann M. Tigges. 2009. “Temporary Employment and Strategic Staffing in the Manufacturing Sector” Industrial Relations 48,1.

           Abstracted in: Human Resource Management International Digest 17,4 (2009).

Vidal, Matt. 2009. “Routine Inefficiency: Operational Satisficing and Real-World Markets,” Research in the Sociology of Work, 18: 89-117.

Vidal, Matt. 2007. “Manufacturing Empowerment? ‘Employee Involvement’ in the Labor Process after Fordism,” Socio-Economic Review 5,2: 197-232.

Vidal, Matt. 2007. “Lean Production, Worker Empowerment, and Job Satisfaction: A Qualitative Analysis and Critique,” Critical Sociology 33,1-2: 247-278.

Forthcoming, “Historical materialism and contradictions at work,” in Andrew Smith, Pauline Dibben, and Adrian Wilkinson (eds.), Key Theories and Concepts in Work and Employment Relations. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Smith, Chris, and Matt Vidal. 2020. “The lean labour process: Global diffusion, societal effects, contradictory implementation,” in Thomas Janoski and Darina Lepadatu (eds.) The Cambridge International Handbook of Lean Production. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Prew, Paul, Tomás Rotta, Tony Smith and Matt Vidal. 2019. “The enduring relevance of Karl Marx,” in Matt Vidal, Paul Prew, Tomas Rotta and Tony Smith (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx. Oxford University Press (with Paul Prew, Tomas Rotta and Tony Smith).

Vidal, Matt. 2019. “Geriatric capitalism: Stagnation and crisis in western capitalism,” in Matt Vidal, Paul Prew, Tomas Rotta and Tony Smith (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx. Oxford University Press. 

Published in Russian as:

Видал М. 2020. Гериатрический капитализм: стагнация и кризис постфордистского режима накопления. Социология власти, 32 (1): 238-262.

Vidal, Matt. 2020. “Geriatric Capitalism: Stagnation and Crisis in the Atlantic Post-Fordist Accumulation Regime,” Sociology of Power 32(1): 238-262.

Vidal, Matt. 2019. “Work and exploitation in capitalism: The labor process and the valorization process,” in Matt Vidal, Paul Prew, Tomas Rotta and Tony Smith (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx. Oxford University Press. 

Vidal, Matt. 2015. “Fordism and the Golden Age of Atlantic Capitalism” pp. 283-305 in Stephen Edgell, Heidi Gottfried and Edward Granter (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment, SAGE.

Vidal, Matt. 2014. “Incoherence and dysfunctionality in the institutional regulation of capitalism,” pp. 73-97 in Marco Hauptmeier and Matt Vidal (Eds.) Comparative Political Economy of Work, Palgrave Macmillan.

Vidal, Matt, and Marco Hauptmeier. 2014. “Comparative Political Economy and Labour Process Theory: Toward a Synthesis,” pp. 1-32 in Marco Hauptmeier and Matt Vidal (Eds.) Comparative Political Economy of Work, Palgrave Macmillan.

Vidal, Matt, and Jamie Peck. 2012. “Sociological Institutionalism and the Socially Constructed Economy,” pp. 594-611 in Trevor Barnes, Jamie Peck, and Eric Sheppard (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography, Wiley.

Vidal, Matt. 2011. “If the Market is So Efficient, Why Do We Need Leaders? Reflections on Corporate Mismanagement,” pp. 47-67 in Anna L. Larsen (Ed.), Political Leadership and its Significance in a Time of Troubles, Nova Science Publishers.

Forthcoming, “Fordism and growth regimes,” in Bastiaan van Apeldoorn and Naná de Graaff (Eds), Encyclopedia of International Political Economy, Edward Elgar.

Vidal, Matt. 2015. “Marxism in Contemporary Sociology,” pp. 649-655 in James D. Wright (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.

Vidal, Matt. 2013. “Inequality and the growth of bad jobs,” Contexts 12, 4.

Reprinted in Race, Class, & Gender: An Anthology, 9th Edition, Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins (Eds.), Cengage Learning (2016).

Vidal, Matt. 2013. “The Rise and Erosion of the ‘Good’ Employment Model,” Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia, Vicki Smith (Ed.).

Vidal, Matt. 2013. “Fordism and Postfordism,” Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia, Vicki Smith (Ed.).

Vidal, Matt. 2009. “Reconstructing the Local Labor Market: The Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership and BIG STEP,” International Labor Brief (Korea Labor Institute) 7, 6: 29-39.

Published in Korean, as:

Vidal, Matt, “미국 지역노동시장의 재건: 위스콘신 지역훈련파트너십,” 국제노동브리프 2009년 6월호 (7,6: 29-39).

Vidal, Matt. 2008. “Taylorism,” Encyclopedia of Social Problems, Vincent N. Parrillo (Ed.).

Vidal, Matt. 2008. “Job Satisfaction,” Encyclopedia of Social Problems, Vincent N. Parrillo (Ed.).

Vidal, Matt. 2008. “Time and Motion Study,” pp. 365-366 in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Vol. 8. 2nd ed., William A. Darity, Jr. (Ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.

Eaglesham, Reed, Ian Greer, Sally Klingel, Sean O’Brady, Shaianne Osterreich, Maru Rodriguez, Matt Vidal, and Russell Weaver, with research assistance from Hayli Bazan, Andrew Kohler, Ian Lam, and Hannah Lorenc. 2023. “A living wage for Tompkins County? Report: Tompkins County Living Wage Working Group Feasibility Study,” ILR Ithaca Co-Lab, Cornell University, March.

Vidal, Matt. 2009. “Reconstructing the Local Labor Market: The Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership and BIG STEP,” International Labor Brief (Korea Labor Institute).

Mitnik, Pablo, Jessica Halpern-Finnerty, and Matt Vidal. 2008. “Cities and Immigration: Local Policies for Immigrant-Friendly Cities,” Center on Wisconsin Strategy and Center for New Community.

Erickson, Paul D, Joel Rogers, and Matt Vidal. 2005. “Bringing it Back Home: Leveraging the Structural Advantage of Domestic Suppliers through Consortial Supplier Development,” Center on Wisconsin Strategy, June.

Luria, Dan, Matt Vidal, Howard Wial, and Joel Rogers. 2005. “‘Full-Utilization Learning Lean’ in Component Manufacturing: A New Industrial Model for Mature Regions, & Labor’s Stake in Its Success,” Sloan Industry Studies Working Paper WP-2006-03, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Report distilled into a pamphlet:

“Manufacturing Matters to the U.S., Manufacturing Jobs Matter to Us: A Union Member’s Handbook for Improving the Future of Manufacturing Jobs and the Manufacturing Industry in the U.S.,” Working for America Institute (2007).

Vidal, Matt. 2004. “Not Just Another Consultant: How the Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership Facilitates Labor-Management Cooperation for High-Performance Work Organization,” Center on Wisconsin Strategy, October.  

Whitford, Josh, Joel Rogers, Jonathan Zeitlin, and Matt Vidal. 2003. “Challenges and Options for Wisconsin Component Manufacturing,” Center on Wisconsin Strategy, June.

Vidal, Matt. 2025. “A Moral Economy without Solidarity?,” in Review Symposium on Jana Costas, Dramas of Dignity: Cleaners in the Corporate Underworld of Berlin. Cambridge, in Socio-Economic Review, forthcoming.  

Vidal, Matt. 2023. “Review of Eric Schutz, Inequality, Class, and Economics,” Contemporary Sociology 52,4: 377-379.

Vidal, Matt. 2019. “Review of Marcello Musto, Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International,” Contemporary Sociology 49,1: 75-77.

Vidal, Matt. 2017. “Review of Colin Crouch, Governing Social Risks in Post-Crisis Europe,” Work Employment & Society 31,2: 363-365.

Vidal, Matt. 2011. “Review of Paul Thompson and Chris Smith (Eds.), Renewing Labour Process Analysis,” Work, Employment & Society 25: 372-374.

Vidal, Matt. 2011. “Review of Yitzhak Samuel, Organizational Pathology: Life and Death of Organizations,” Contemporary Sociology 40: 80-82.

Vidal, Matt. 2010. “Review of Paul Stewart, Mike Richardson, Andy Danford, Ken Murphy, Tony Richardson and Vicki Wass. We Sell Our Time No More. Workers’ Struggles Against Lean Production in the British Car Industry,” British Journal of Industrial Relations 48,3: 646-648.

Vidal, Matt. 2010. “Review of John Bellamy Foster & Fred Magdoff, The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences,” Review of Political Economy 22,1: 177-180.

Vidal, Matt. 2009. “Review of Vicki Smith and Esther B. Neuwirth, The Good Temp,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 64,2: 626-628.

Vidal, Matt. 2008. “Review of Edna Bonacich and Jake B. Wilson, Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor and the Logistics Revolution,” Work and Occupations 35,4: 498-500.

Vidal, Matt. 2008. “Review of Review of Steven C. McKay, Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines,” Work, Employment and Society 22,2.

Vidal, Matt. 2007. “Review of Stanley Aronowitz, Just Around the Corner: The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery,” Socialism and Democracy 21,1.