The working class majority : America's best kept secret / Michael Zweig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zweig, Michael, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--United States.

Working class.

Working class--Political activity--United States.

United States--Economic conditions--1981-2001.

United States.

United States--Economic conditions--2001-2009.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : ILR Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the second edition of his essential book-which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social crisis following 2008-Michael Zweig warns that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of "middle class" or "consumers," we also allow those with the dominant power, capitalists, to vanish among the rich. Economic relations then appear as comparisons of income or lifestyle rather than as what they truly are-contests of power, at work and in the larger society.

Contents:

The class structure of the United States

What we think about when we think about class

Why is class important?

Looking at "the underclass"

Looking at values, family and otherwise

The working class and power

Power and globalization

Power and the government

Into the millennium.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501746789

1501746782

9780801464782

0801464781

9780801464317

0801464315

OCLC:

774290535