Understanding class / Erik Olin Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Erik Olin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes.

Marxian school of sociology.

Physical Description:

xi, 260 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2015.

Summary:

"What are the causes of inequality in capitalist society? In Understanding Class, leading left sociologist Erik Olin Wright returns to the fundamental concept underlying this question, and interrogates the different theories and paradigms that have arisen for understanding it. Beginning with class analysis in Marx and Weber, proceeding through the writings of Charles Tilly and others, and finally examining how class struggle and class compromise play out in contemporary society, Understanding Class provides a complex but compelling view of how to think through inequality"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 From Grand Paradigm Battles to Pragmatist Realism: Towards an Integrated Class Analysis 1

Part 1 Frameworks of Class Analysis 19

2 The Shadow of Exploitation in Weber's Class Analysis 21

3 Metatheoretical Foundations of Charles Tilly's Durable Inequality 57

4 Class, Exploitation, and Economic Rents: Reflections on Sørensen's "Toward a Sounder Basis for Class Analysis" 79

5 Michael Mann's Two Frameworks of Class Analysis 93

Part 2 Class in the Twenty-First Century 111

6 Occupations as Micro-classes: David Grusky and Kim Weeden's Reconfiguration of Class Analysis 113

7 The Ambiguities of Class in Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century 127

8 The Death of Class Debate 139

9 Is the Precariat a Class? 157

Part 3 Class Struggle and Class Compromise 175

10 Beneficial Constraints: Beneficial for Whom? 177

11 Working Class Power, Capitalist Class Interests, and Class Compromise 185

12 Class Struggle and Class Compromise in the Era of Stagnation and Crisis 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781781689455

1781689458

9781781689202

1781689202

OCLC:

895727360

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