How Class Works / Darryl Wheye, Donald Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wheye, Darryl, Author.

Kennedy, Donald, Author.

Contributor:

Ehrlich, Paul R.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2003]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Americans like to believe that they live in a classless society. Most Americans defiantly identify themselves as middle class, although economic inequality is greater in the United States than in most advanced Western nations. Offering an important revision of conventional wisdom, Stanley Aronowitz demonstrates that class remains a potent force in the United States. Aronowitz shows that class need not be understood simply in terms of socioeconomic stratification, but rather as the power of social groups to make a difference. Aronowitz explains that social groups from different economic and political positions become ruling classes when they make demands that change the course of history. For instance, labor movements, environmental activists, and feminists have engaged in class struggles as their demands for power reconfigured the social order. The emerging global justice movements-comprised of activists from heterogeneous social and political backgrounds-also show potential for class formation. Written by a prominent scholar and social activist, this book offers a stunning reconceptualization of the meaning and significance of class in modern America.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. CLASS MATTERS

2. TIME AND SPACE IN CLASS THEORY

3. History and Class Theory

4. Does the United States Have a Ruling Class?

5. National and International Blocs

6. The New Social Movements and Class

7. Ecology and Class

8. Utopia on Hold

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300148497

0300148496

OCLC:

1024051327