Ronaldo Munck is an Argentine sociologist who has worked on the political sociology and globalisation of Latin America and Ireland.
[1] He completed his PhD in political sociology at the University of Essex in 1976 under the supervision of Ernesto Laclau.
[7] Munck's works on Irish political sociology include Ireland: Nation, State and Class Conflict (1985),[8] Belfast in the Thirties: An Oral History (1987),[9] The Irish Economy: Results and Prospects (1993),[10] and Globalisation, Migration and Social Change in Ireland: After the Celtic Tiger (2011, co-edited with Bryan Fanning).
[11] Munck's comparative labor studies include The New International Labour Studies (1988),[12]Argentina: From Anarchism to Peronism: Workers, unions and politics 1855-1985 (1986),[13] Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalisation: Alternative Unions Models in the New World Order (1998, co-edited with Peter Waterman),[14] Labour and Globalisation: The New 'Great Transformation' (2002),[15] and Globalisation and Contestation: The Great Counter-Movement (2006).
[16] Munck's publications on political sociology and social theory include The Difficult Dialogue: Marxism and Nationalism (1986)[17] and Marx @ 2000: Late Marxist Perspectives (2000)[18] which sought to renew Marxism in conversations with post-modernism, as well as the collection on critical development theory co-edited with Denis O'Hearn Critical Development Theory: Contributions to a New Paradigm (1999)[19] and the study Water and Development: Good governance after Neoliberalism (2015).