Class, ethnicity, and social inequality / Christopher McAll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McAll, Christopher.

Series:

McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history ; 6.

McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes.

Ethnicity.

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 295 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; London : McGill-Queens University Press, 1992, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Class, Ethnicity, and Social Inequality Christopher McAll discusses the increased juxtaposition of ethnically distinct groups in the same social environments which has resulted from labour migration since the Second World War. He shows that, in the co

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Class versus Ethnicity: Manning the Barricades

The Hostile Opposition of Interests: Class in Marx

Neither Central nor Absent. Class in Weber’s Economy and Society

The Spectre of Class in Non-Marxist Social Science

Theory and Experience: Class in Contemporary Marxism

Class Replaced: Ethnicity in Non-Marxist Theory

The Players and the Masks: Marxist Approaches to Ethnicity

Parts of a Whole: Identity and Inequality

With or Without Class? The Problem of Pre-industrial Society

In Search of Identity: Ethnicity and the "Boundaries" of Social Anthropology

Coming into the Open: Capitalism and the Emergence of Class

Ethnicity’s Revenge: Labour Migration and Racism in Industrial Societies

From a Train Window: Ethnicity and the Landscape of Class in Britain

Frameworks of Meaning: The Politics of Ethnicity

A Sense of Belonging: Capitalism and the “Nation-State”

Keeping the Old World Going Multiculturalism and the State in Canada

Collective Containment: Ethnicity and the Colonial Frontier

The Dark Rose: Ethnicity, Resistance, and the Idea of Nationhood

Inequality and Pluralism: The Ethnicity of Class

Structural Seclusion: Making Social Inequality Possible

The Tangled Foliage

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85142-X

9786612851421

0-7735-6215-X

OCLC:

929121791