Room 5419
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10016
(212) 817-8438
clacls@gc.cuny.edu
Peter Ranis

Professor Emeritus Ph.D Program in Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY

ranis@york.cuny.edu 

Tel: (212) 580-1896

160 West End Ave. Apt. 27T

New York, New York 10023-5616

Professor Ranis’s research interests include the political economy and labor studies in Argentina, Latin America and the U.S. He has over 70 publications in various areas of Western Hemisphere social science. He has published four books, among them Los Valores de los Trabajadores del Gran Buenos Aires (Corregidor, 1997), Class, Democracy and Labor in Contemporary Argentina (Transaction Publishers, 1995) and Argentine Workers: Peronism and Contemporary Class Consciousness (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992). His articles have appeared in Journal of Politics, Latin American Research Review, Studies in Comparative International Development, Desarrollo Económico, Latin American Politics and Society, Labor Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, Socialism and Democracy, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Current History, Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination, Journal of Caribbean Studies, Society, Civilisations, Polity and New Political Science. Recently in March 2008, he spoke at the annual Left Forum (Cooper Union) on a panel entitled “New Participatory Working-Class Movements Challenge Left Reformism in Latin America.” He reviewed Maria Lorena Cook’s book “The Politics of Labor Reform in Latin America: Between Flexibility and Rights”, Perspectives on Politics, March 2008 (the publication of the American Political Science Review). In December 2007 he was interviewed on the program “Against the Grain”, Pacifica radio station KPFA (Berkeley, California). The topic was the potential uses of eminent domain as public policy in protecting and maintaining working class jobs in U.S. industries. The interest came out of his article “Eminent Domain: Unused Tool for American Labor?” in Working USA: the Journal of Labor and Society (June 2007).