A retired UC Berkeley professor was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Oakland on Monday. He was identified as Michael Burawoy, 77, of Oakland, who was regarded as an influential sociology professor ...

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A UC Berkeley professor emeritus was killed in a deadly hit-and-run crash in Oakland on Monday. The coroner has identified the victim as 77-year-old Michael Burawoy. He taught sociology at Cal.

What distinguished Michael Burawoy from other socialists was that he did not sidestep or ignore conservative criticisms of Marxism. Rather, he took them head-on and developed a sociology that could ...

On Tuesday, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Coroner Bureau identified the deceased victim as 77-year-old Michael Burawoy. Burawoy was a professor of sociology at UC Berkeley for nearly half a century.