Reworking class / edited by John R. Hall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, John R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 408 p. :) ill. ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [1997]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The twelve essays in this volume propose new directions in the analysis of class. John R. Hall argues that recent historical and intellectual developments require reworking basic assumptions about classes and their dynamics. The contributors effectively abandon the notion of a transcendent class struggle. They seek instead to understand the historically contingent ways in which economic interests are pursued under institutionally, socially, and culturally structured circumstances.In his introduction, Hall proposes a neo-Weberian venue intended to bring the most promising contemporary approaches to class analysis into productive exchange with one another. Some of the chapters that follow rework how classes are conceptualized. Others offer historical and sociological reflections on questions of class identity. A third cluster focuses on the politics of class mobilizations and social movements in contexts of national and global economic change.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

Foreword

INTRODUCTION: The Reworking of Class Analysis / Hall, John R.

PART I. Changing Cultures of Class Analysis

CHAPTER I. Rethinking, Once Again, the Concept of Class Structure / Wright, Erik Olin

CHAPTER 2. Deconstructing and Reconstructing Qass Formation Theory: Narrativity, Relational Analysis, and Social Theory / Somers, Margaret R.

CHAPTER 3. Statistical Classifications and the Salience of Social Class / Donnelly, Michael

CHAPTER 4. Class Formation and the Quintessential Worker / Rose, Sonya O.

PART II. Cultural Structurings of Class Identities

CHAPTER 5. Work and Culture in the Reception of Class Ideologies / Biernacki, Richard

CHAPTER 6. The Meaning of Class and Race: French and American Workers Discuss Differences / Lamont, Michele

CHAPTER 7. Rethinking Cultural and Economic Capital / Rupp, Jan C. C.

CHAPTER 8. Cannery Row: Class, Community, and the Social Construction of History / Walton, John

PART III. The Economic, the Social, and the Political Agencies of Class

CHAPTER 9. World of Capital I Worlds of Labor: A Global Perspective / Tomich, Dale

CHAPTER 10. Class Location versus Market Interests in Macropolitical Behavior: The Social Origins of the German Nazi Party / Brustein, William / Brustein, William

CHAPTER 11. Social Class and the Reemergence of the Radical Right in Contemporary Germany / Steinmetz, George

CHAPTER 12. Class Analysis and Social Movements: A Critique and Reformulation

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501725449

1501725440

OCLC:

1132221186