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Wood was born Ellen Meiksins one year after her parents, Latvia
Latvia
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n Jews
Jews
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 active in the Bund
General Jewish Labour Bund in Latvia
The General Jewish Labour Bund in Latvia was a Jewish socialist party in Latvia, adhering to the political line of the General Jewish Labour Bund.-The beginnings of the Latvian Bund:...

, arrived in New York
New York
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 from Europe
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 as political refugees. She was raised in the United States and Europe.

Wood received a B.A.
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

 in Slavic languages
Slavic languages
The Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.-Branches:Scholars traditionally divide Slavic...

 from the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

 in 1962 and subsequently entered the graduate program in political science at the University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

, from which she received the Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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 in 1970. From 1967 to 1996, she taught political science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

 at Glendon College
Glendon College
Glendon College is one of the two campuses of York University, Canada's third-largest university, in Toronto, Ontario. A bilingual liberal arts college with 84 full-time faculty members and a student population of about 2400, Glendon is located in midtown Toronto's Lawrence Park neighbourhood...

, York University
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 in Toronto
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, Canada
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.

She has written many books and articles, some conjointly with her husband, Neal Wood
Neal Wood
A Marxist scholar of the history of political thought, Neal Wood located political ideas within social relations, property forms, and popular struggles, writing on topics as variant as the British Communist Party, John Locke, Aristotle, Edmund Burke, and St...

 (1922–2003). Her book The Retreat from Class received the Isaac Deutscher
Isaac Deutscher
Isaac Deutscher was a Polish-born Jewish Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom at the outbreak of World War II. He is best known as a biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and as a commentator on Soviet affairs...

 Memorial Prize in 1988. Her work has been translated into many languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Turkish, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.

Wood served on the editorial committee of the British journal New Left Review
New Left Review
New Left Review is a 160-page journal, published every two months from London, devoted to world politics, economy and culture. Often compared to the French-language Les Temps modernes, it is associated with Verso Books , and regularly features the essays of authorities on contemporary social...

 between 1984 and 1993. From 1997 to 2000, Wood was an editor, along with Harry Magdoff
Harry Magdoff
Henry Samuel Magdoff , was a prominent American socialist commentator. He held several administrative positions in government during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and later became co-editor of the Marxist publication, Monthly Review.-Early years:A child of poor Russian-Jewish immigrants,...

 and Paul Sweezy
Paul Sweezy
Paul Marlor Sweezy was a Marxist economist, political activist, publisher, and founding editor of the long-running magazine Monthly Review...

, of Monthly Review
Monthly Review
Monthly Review is an independent Marxist journal published 11 times per year in New York City.-History:The publication was founded by Harvard University economics instructor Paul Sweezy, who became the first editor...

, the independent socialist magazine.

In 1996, she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada
Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada , may also operate under the more descriptive name RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada , is the oldest association of scientists and scholars in Canada...

, a marker of distinguished scholarship. She now resides in England
England
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.

Sole Author

  • Mind and Politics: An Approach to the Meaning of Liberal and Socialist Individualism (University of California Press, 1972).
  • The Retreat from Class: A New 'True' Socialism (Schocken Books, 1986). ISBN 0-8052-7280-1, and (Verso Classics, January 1999) reprint with new introductionv. ISBN 1-85984-270-4.
  • The Pristine Culture of Capitalism (Verso, 1992). ISBN 0-86091-572-7.
  • Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism (Cambridge University Press, 1995). ISBN 0-521-47682-8. Excerpt available here
  • Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy (Verso, February 20, 1997). ISBN 0-86091-911-0.
  • The Origin of Capitalism
    The Origin of Capitalism
    The Origin of Capitalism is a 1999 book on history and political economy by scholar Ellen Meiksins Wood. It was reviewed as an "Outstanding Academic Book" by Michael Perelman.-Content:...

     (Monthly Review
    Monthly Review
    Monthly Review is an independent Marxist journal published 11 times per year in New York City.-History:The publication was founded by Harvard University economics instructor Paul Sweezy, who became the first editor...

     Press, 1999), 120 pp. ISBN 1-58367-000-9, ISBN 1-58367-007-6.
  • The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
    The Origin of Capitalism
    The Origin of Capitalism is a 1999 book on history and political economy by scholar Ellen Meiksins Wood. It was reviewed as an "Outstanding Academic Book" by Michael Perelman.-Content:...

     (Verso Books
    Verso Books
    Verso Books is a publishing house based in London and New York City, founded in 1970 by the staff of New Left Review. The company claims "global sales approaching $3 million per year and over 350 titles in print," possibly making it "the largest radical publisher in the English-language...

    , 2002), 213 pp. ISBN 1-85984-392-1, ISBN 978-1-85984-392-5.
  • Empire of Capital, (Verso, 2003) (ISBN 978-1-85984-502-8) & paperback (Verso, 2005). ISBN 1-84467-518-1.
  • Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Verso, 2008). ISBN 978-1-84467-243-1.

Co-Authored with Neal Wood

  • Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in Social Context (Oxford University Press, 1978).
  • A Trumpet of Sedition: Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism, 1509-1688 (New York University Press, 1997).

Co-Edited Collections

  • In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda, ed. with John Bellamy Foster (Monthly Review Press, 1997).
  • Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution, ed. with Robert W. McChesney
    Robert W. McChesney
    Robert Waterman McChesney is an American professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication. His work concentrates on the history and political economy of communication, emphasizing the role media play in democratic...

     and John Bellamy Foster
    John Bellamy Foster
    John Bellamy Foster is a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and also editor of Monthly Review, an independent socialist magazine. His writings have focused on political economy, environmental sociology, and Marxist theory...

     (Monthly Review Press, 1998).
  • Rising from the Ashes? Labor in the Age of "Global" Capitalism, ed. with Peter Meiksins and Michael Yates
    Michael Yates (economist)
    Michael Yates is an economist and a labor educator, and associate editor of the socialist magazine Monthly Review .He advocates a socialist view of economics.-Early life and education:...

     (Monthly Review Press, 1998).

Publications Available Online


Interviews Available Online


Book Reviews

  • "Happy Campers" book review of Why Not Socialism? by G.A. Cohen, London Review of Books
    London Review of Books
    The London Review of Books is a fortnightly British magazine of literary and intellectual essays.-History:The LRB was founded in 1979, during the year-long lock-out at The Times, by publisher A...

    , Vol. 32, No. 2 (28 January 2010) [ Retrieved 18 April 2010 ]
  • "Why It Matters" book review of Hobbes and Republican Liberty by Quentin Skinner, London Review of Books
    London Review of Books
    The London Review of Books is a fortnightly British magazine of literary and intellectual essays.-History:The LRB was founded in 1979, during the year-long lock-out at The Times, by publisher A...

    , Vol. 30, No. 18 (25 September 2008) [ Retrieved 18 April 2010 ]
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