Charles Sabel

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Charles Frederick Sabel (born December 1, 1947) is an American academic and professor of Law and Social Science at the Columbia Law School. His research centers on public innovations, European Union governance, labor standards, economic development, and ultra-robust networks.

Sabel attended Harvard University and earned a B.A. in Social Studies in 1969 and a Ph.D. in Government in 1978.^[1] He was a faculty member in the departments of Political Science and Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1977 and 1995.^[1] He joined the faculty at Columbia University in 1995. He is the recipient of a 1982 MacArthur Fellowship. Together with Joshua Cohen and others he developed the theory of directly deliberative poliarchy or democratic experimentalism, which is related to the concept of deliberative democracy. This concept mainly builds upon Japanese production methods interpreted as the institutionalization of decentralized learning.

His 1984 book, The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity, co-written with Michael J. Piore, has been widely influential among labor scholars.^{[citation needed]}

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Sabel, Charles & Dorf, Michael C. (2006), A Constitution of Democratic Experimentalism, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
Sabel, Charles (2006), Learning by Monitoring, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
Sabel, Charles; Fung, Archon & O'Rourke, Dara (2001), Can We Put an End fo Sweatshops?, Boston, MA: Beacon Press
Sabel, Charles (1996), Local Partnerships and Social Innovation: Ireland, Dublin: OECD
Sabel, Charles & Piore, Michael (1984), The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity, New York: Basic Books
Sabel, Charles (1982), Work and Politics: The Division of Labor in Industry, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press
Sabel, Charles (1978), Ökonomische Krisentendenzen im gegenwärtigen Kapitalismus, Frankfurt: Campus Verlag