Class and its others / J.K. Gibson-Graham, Stephen A. Resnick, Richard D. Wolff, editors ; foreword by Amitava Kumar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gibson-Graham, J. K.

Resnick, Stephen A.

Wolff, Richard D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--Economic conditions.

Working class.

Working class--Social conditions.

Social classes.

Communism and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offers new and compelling ways to look at class through examinations of such topics as sex work, the experiences of African American women as domestic laborers, and blue- and white-collar workers. This work acknowledges that individuals may participate in various class relations at one moment or over time and that class identities are multiple and changing. Taken together, the essays in this book will prompt a rethinking of class and class subjectivity that will expand social theory.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword: In Class; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Class in a Poststructuralist Frame; 1. ""This Job Has No End"": African American Domestic Workers and Class Becoming; 2. Domesticating Class: Femininity, Heterosexuality, and Household Politics; 3. Exploitation in the Labor of Love; 4. Spring Flowers; 5. Beyond Slavery and Capitalism: Producing Class Difference in the Sex Industry; 6. Classing the Self-Employed: New Possibilities of Power and Collectivity; 7. Los Angeles: A Postmodern Class Mapping; 8. Blue Collar, White Collar: Deconstructing Classification; Bibliography

ContributorsIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-245) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9178-9

OCLC:

232159842