ABSTRACT
My early graduate training was in Marxist social and economic theory. Like many, I made a cultural turn toward the end of that training and began to lose touch with the study of corporatism, the history of the labor process, and with earlier trends towards “democratizing the workplace,” which had been very much part of my intellectual life. This was, of course, in part because people who studied these things did not really study culture or study political economy from a cultural perspective. Being introduced to sophisticated approaches to culture was for me, in that initial moment, paradigm-shattering.
