Memories of class : the pre-history and after-life of class / Zygmunt Bauman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925-2017.

Series:

Routledge revivals.

Routledge revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes--History.

Social classes.

Social status--History.

Social status.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1982, Professor Bauman's discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial society. He investigates the impact of historical memory on the early transformation of rank into a class society, and on the current confusion in the analysis of the 'crisis of late-industrial society'.The book traces the formation of a class society back to the patterns of 'surveillance

Contents:

Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Class: before and after. A preview; 2 From rank to class; 3 The self-assembly of class; 4 The tendency of industrial society: an interim summary; 5 Corporatism and its discontents; 6 New contradictions, new victims; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-15551-8

1-135-15552-6

1-282-97413-0

9786612974137

0-203-85720-8

9780203857205

OCLC:

609845489