JOINED VPI& SU: 1986

CURRENT PROJECTS: My current research focuses mainly on the dynamics of the transnational labor rights social movement. In particular, I am studying the transnational campaign for labor rights in the garment factories of Nicaragua's export-processing zones - what structural conditions made the campaign feasible and likely, how the campaign emerged and developed, the strategies and tactics it has used when confronting corporate and government adversaries, and so on. I am collaborating with Tom Ricker in some of this work. More generally, I am concerned with recent and prospective shifts in power relations between labor and capital on a global scale. I am also engaged in social movement-related research with recent  graduates of the VPI & SU Sociology Ph.D. program, Steve Poulson and Bradley Nash. Personal web page.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor's	Louisiana Tech University
Master's	Ohio State University
Doctorate	Ohio State University

OTHER PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

Date	Name of Institution	Title
1985-1986	Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA)	Assistant to the Executive Director

CURRENT TEACHING INTERESTS:

Global Political Economy (labor, capital, and the state)
Social Inequality
Social Problems
Social Movements / Collective Action
Research Methods and Statistics

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Critical Global Political Economy
Social Inequality
Social Movements
Cross-Border Labor Solidarity
Basic Human Needs and the Quality of Life

SELECTED AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Associate Editor, Rural Sociology, 1996-1998

Book Review Editor and Member of Editorial Board, Journal of World-Systems Research, 1993-.

Editorial Board, Social Forces, 1994-1997.

Secretary-Treasurer, Section on the Political Economy of the World-System, American Sociological Association, 1994-.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Tom Ricker and Dale W. Wimberley, "Global Networking in the 21st Century: Labor Rights Movements and Nicaragua's Maquilas, 2000-2001." In Crises and Resistance in the 21st Century World-System, Wilma A. Dunaway, ed. Greenwood Press. Forthcoming 2003.

Wimberley, Dale W., Donald G. McCloud, and William L. Flinn. Predicting Success of Indonesian Graduate Students in the United States. Comparative Education Review 36 (No. 4), 1992, 487-508.

Wimberley, Dale W. and Rosario Bello. Effects of Foreign Investment, Exports, and Economic Growth on Third World Food Consumption. Social Forces. 70, 1992, 895-921.

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