Prechel, Harland 1949-

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Prechel, Harland 1949-

PERSONAL:

Born August 8, 1949, in Sparta, WI; son of Norbert and Alice Prechel; married Ruth Larson (a professor of French), 1996; children: Helen. Ethnicity:"German." Education: Attended University of Wisconsin—La Crosse, 1976; University of Kansas, Ph.D., 1986.

ADDRESSES:

Home—5816 Stallion Ridge, College Station, TX 77845. Office—Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4351. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Writer. Texas A&M University, College Station, professor of sociology, 1991—.

WRITINGS:


Big Business and the State: Historical Transitions and Corporate Transformation,1880s-1990s, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 2000.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Creating Inequality: The Politics of Income and Wealth Distribution.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:


PERIODICALS


Administrative Science Quarterly, September, 2001, William G. Roy, review of Big Business and the State: Historical Transitions and Corporate Transformation, 1880s-1990s, p. 580.

American Journal of Sociology, May, 2003, Davita Silfen Glasberg, review of Big Business and the State, p. 1400.