![]() New School University in New York (2002), University of Southern California (2004) and Strathclyde University (2005-2008). In addition, he held Visiting Professorships at the Department of Sociology in New York University (Spring 1993) and University of Hong Kong (1994). He was a Visiting Research Fellow: at the Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego (1986-87 1990) the Centre of Asian Studies, Hong Kong University (1994) and the School of Sociology, University of New South Wales, Sydney (1995). ![]() Professor Sklair was a consultant to the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations in New York (1987-88) the ILO in Geneva (1993) the US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment (1991) and the UN Economic Commission on Latin America in Mexico City (1992). A third edition completely revised and updated, of this book, Globalization: capitalism and its alternatives, was published by OUP in 2002, and Portuguese – this book and The Transnational Capitalist Class (2001) are now in Chinese translations. These works provided the material basis for Sociology of the Global System (published 1991, second updated edition in 1995, translated into Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Persian and Korean). He published Assembling for Development: The Maquila Industry in Mexico and the United States in 1989, with a second updated edition in 1993. In the 1980s he carried out field research on the developmental impacts of foreign investment in Ireland, Egypt and (more intensively) China and Mexico. In 1973 he published Organized Knowledge: Sociological View of Science and Technology (which was translated into Spanish). He received his PhD from LSE, and his thesis, Sociology of Progress, was published by Routledge in 1970 and was then translated into German. Leslie Sklair is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at LSE.
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