Class : the anthology / edited by Stanley Aronowitz and Michael J. Roberts.

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English
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Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ; Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2018.
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xxi, 542 pages ; 25 cm

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    Using an innovative framework, Class: The Anthology examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations. It brings together more than 30 selections rich in theory and empirical detail that span the working, middle, and capitalist classes. The editors use an interdisciplinary approach that combines scholarship from political economy, social history, and cultural studies. By bridging these three distinct traditions, they position the question of class within the larger theoretical framework of work and labor. The selections address the major historical events and developments within class relations in the US and also internationally. They illuminate important insights about the relationship between workers and capitalism, as well as key issues at the intersection of class, race, and gender. This new conception of class allows readers to make sense of modern class relations as well as the current crisis in the global capitalist system, from the Occupy Wall Street Movement to the explosion of Arab Spring and the emergence of class conflict in China. -- Provided by publisher.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • The working class. Representing the working class
    • The realm of freedom and the Magna Carta of the legally limited working day
    • Time, work-discipline, and industrial capitalism
    • The wages of whiteness : race and the making of the American working class
    • A living wage : American workers and the making of consumer society
    • The stop watch and the wooden shoe : scientific management and the industrial workers of the world
    • The power of women and the subversion of the community
    • Ladies of labor, girls of adventure : working women, popular culture, and labor politics at the turn of the twentieth century
    • Three strikes that paved the way
    • Jukebox blowin' a fuse : the working-class roots of rock-and-roll
    • Labor's time : shorter hours, the UAW, and the struggle for American unionism
    • The unmaking of the English working class : deindustrialization, reification, and heavy metal
    • The jobless future : sci-tech and the dogma of work
    • Shiftless of the world unite!
    • Occupy the hammock : the sign of the slacker behind disturbances in the will to work
    • The middle class. The vanishing middle
    • The struggle over the saloon
    • The salaried masses : duty and distraction in Weimar Germany
    • The twilight of the middle class : post-World War II American fiction and the white-collar work
    • The rise of professionalism : a sociological analysis
    • The new working class
    • How the university works : higher education and the low-wage nation
    • The mental labor problem
    • Neoliberalism, debt and class power
    • The capitalist class. The captitalist class : accumulation, crisis and discipline
    • The secret of primitive accumulation
    • The monied metropolis : New York City and the consolidation of the American bourgeoisie, 1850-1896
    • Class struggle and the New Deal : industrial labor, industrial capital, and the state
    • Scientific management
    • Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's new dream
    • Nixon's class struggle
    • The global reserve army of labor and the new imperialism
    • The end of retirement
    • The politics of austerity and the Ikarian dream.
    ISBN
    • 9780631224983 ((hardback))
    • 063122498X ((hardback))
    • 9780631224990 ((paperback))
    • 0631224998 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2017015692
    OCLC
    149078553
    Other standard number
    • 40027547776
    • 40027539384
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