Rick Fantasia

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Rick Fantasia is a professor of sociology at Smith College. He frequently conducts research in France, and his research interests include the interaction between labor and culture in the United States and France. He was particularly influenced by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, and is the Director of the Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute.

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Cultures of Solidarity. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1988
(co authored with Maurice Isserman) Homelessness: A Sourcebook. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1994)
(co-editored with Rhonda F. Levine and Scott G. McNall). Bringing Class Back In: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991
(co-authored with Kim Voss) Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2004. Published in France as Des Syndicats Domestiqués: Répression patronale et résistance syndicale aux États-Unis. Paris: Editions Raisons d’Agir, 2003.
The Magic of Americanism: French Gastronomy in the Age of Neo-Liberalism. In preparation.