Class : the anthology

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Roberts, Michael J
• Aronowitz, Stanley

Publisher

Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2018

Language

English

ISBN

9781119395485

Series

Subject(s)

• SOCIAL CLASSES

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references and index (523-542)

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Abstract

Using an innovative framework, this reader examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations.

Uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines scholarship from political economy, social history, and cultural studies
Brings together more than 50 selections rich in theory and empirical detail that span the working, middle, and capitalist classes
Analyzes class within the larger context of labor, particularly as it relates to conflicts over and about work
Provides insight into the current crisis in the global capitalist system, including the Occupy Wall Street Movement, the explosion of Arab Spring, and the emergence of class conflict in China

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xxi, 542 p.)

Dimension

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

PART ONE: The Working Class
Chapter 1: Representing the Working Class; Michael J. Roberts
Chapter 2: The Realm of Freedom and The Magna Carta of the Legally Limited Working Day; Karl Marx Chapter 3: Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism; E.P. Thompson
Chapter 4: The Wages of Whiteness; David Roediger
Chapter 5: A Living Wage; Lawrence Glickman
Chapter 6: The Stop Watch and Wooden Shoe; Mike Davis
Chapter 7: The Power of Women and the Subversion of Community; Mariarosa Dalla Costa
Chapter 8: Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure; Nan Enstad
Chapter 9: Three Strikes that Paved the Way; Art Preis
Chapter 10: Tile: Jukebox Blowin' a Fuse: The Working-Class Roots of Rock-and-Roll; Michael J. Roberts Chapter 11: Labor's Time; Jonathan Cutler
Chapter 12: The Unmaking of the English Working Class; Ryan Moore
Chapter 13: The Jobless Future; Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazzio
Chapter 14: Shiftless Unite; Robin D.G. Kelley
Chapter 15: Occupy the Hammock; Michael J. Roberts

PART TWO: The Middle Class
Chapter 16: The Vanishing Middle; Stanley Aronowitz
Chapter 17: The Struggle Over the Saloon; Roy Rosenzweig
Chapter 18: The Salaried Masses; Siegfried Kracauer
Chapter 19: The Twilight of the Middle Class; Andrew Hoberk
Chapter 20: The Rise of Professionalism; Magali Sarfatti Larson
Chapter 21: The New Working Class; Serge Mallet
Chapter 22: How the University Works; Marc Bousquet
Chapter 23: The Mental Labor Problem; Andrew Ross
Chapter 24: Debt and Class Power Justin; Sean Myers

PART THREE: The Capitalist Class
Chapter 25: The Capitalist Class: Accumulation, Crisis and Discpline; Michael J. Roberts
Chapter 26: The Hidden Abode of Production; Karl Marx
Chapter 27: The Monied Metropolis; Sven Beckert
Chapter 28: Class Struggle and the New Deal; Rhonda Levine
Chapter 29: Scientific Management; Harry Braverman
Chapter 30: Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Dream of Full Employment; Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt Chapter 31: Nixon's Class War; Jefferson Cowie
Chapter 32: The Global Reserve of Labor; John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney
Chapter 33: The End of Retirement; Teresa Ghilarducci
Chapter 34: The Politics of Austerity and the Ikarian Dream; Kristin Lawler.

Exemplar(s)

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1.	01036/19	305.5 Aro C	Online !	Available