Education
B.A. Reed College (2009)
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Political Science (2017)
Courses
- PSCI 146 LEC The world of wealth and work: An introduction to the politics of capitalism (not offered 2026/27)
- PSCI 246 SEM Introduction to Capitalism (not offered 2026/27)
- PSCI 280 TUT Silicon Valley: Digital Transformation and Democracy (not offered 2026/27)
- PSCI 342 SEM Beyond the welfare state (not offered 2026/27)
- PSCI 385 (S) TUT The promise of digital sovereignty
- PSCI 387 SEM The Firm (not offered 2026/27)
- POEC 402 (S) SEM Political Economy of Public Policy Issues
- PSCI 443 SEM Senior seminar: Worker power in global perspective (not offered 2026/27)
Committees
- Committee on Educational Affairs
More Information
Selected Publications
(Complete list at Google Scholar)
Books
Recoding Power: Tactics for Mobilizing Tech Workers (Oxford University Press, 2022)
- Reviewed in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Jacobin, Perspectives on Work, Perspectives on Politics, Socio-Economic Review (symposium).
- Media Coverage: WAMC Northeast Public Radio.
- Awards: SASE Alice Amsden Book Award, Honorable Mention.
Imbalance: Germany’s Political Economy after the Social Democratic Century (Routledge, 2021) [ed., with Tobias Schulze-Cleven]
- Reviewed in: EuropeNow, German Politics and Society, Perspectives on Politics, Politische Vierteljahresschrift.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
“Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery,” Competition & Change (forthcoming 2026).
“Solidarity across the platform: Mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector,” Work in the Global Economy 5, no. 2 (2025). (Online appendix)
“Transnational governance of digital transformation: Financing innovation in Europe’s periphery,” New Political Economy 29, no. 2 (2024), 227-239. (pdf)
“Coordinating digital transformation: The discursive context of production in the knowledge economy,”Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society 2, no. 1 (2022), 1-34.
“How workers mobilize in financializing firms: A theory of discursive opportunism,”British Journal of Industrial Relations 60, no. 1 (2022), 57-77.
“Toward a discursive approach to growth models: Social blocs in the politics of digital transformation,” Review of International Political Economy 29, no. 4 (2022), 1211-1236. (pdf)
“Germany after the social democratic century: The political economy of imbalance,” German Politics 29, no. 3 (2020), 295-316. [with Tobias Schulze-Cleven]
“Unlikely activists: Building worker power under liberalization,” Socio-Economic Review 17, no. 3 (2019), 573-602. (pdf)
“Macune’s monopoly: Economic law and the legacy of populism,” Studies in American Political Development 28 (April 2014), 80-106. (pdf)
Selected Commentary
“Organizing Tech Workers and Recoding Power: Interview with Sidney Rothstein.” DigiLabour. September 9, 2022. (Também em português)
“Recovering more than profits.” Blog post for the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University. May 17, 2022.
“From shared commitment to shared strategy: Encouraging employer investment in workers’ skills.” Blog post for the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University. May 8, 2018.
“Zeit für mehr Mitsprache: Arbeitnehmerrechte und die digitale Transformation.” WZB-Mitteillungen, Heft 159, März 2018, 10-12.
“Including workers’ voices in the digital transformation.” Blog post for the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University. November 15, 2017.