Class and Class Structure

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CLASS AND CLASS STRUCTURE Edited with an introduction by Alan Hunt
The definition of such ley concepts as 'the worling ciass', 'the petty bourgeoisie' and 'the middle class' has preoccupied and often confused political debate and current economic analysis. With the adoption of programmes which involve the tactics and strategy of class alliances for common aims by Communist and Socialist parties in Western Europe, the correct differentiation of these concepts has become a crucial area of theoretical discussion with direct practical consequences in the political arena. This volume contains essays by leading IVIarxist scholars in the field and reflects the analytical scope and the political urgency of the debate between those with a strictly economic and those with a more flexible, social and ideologically conscious definition of class.
Contents:/l/a/7 Hunt, 'Introduction'; Stuart Hall, 'The "Political" and the "Economic" in IVIarx's theory of Classes'; Vic Alien,'The... Tovább

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CLASS AND CLASS STRUCTURE Edited with an introduction by Alan Hunt
The definition of such ley concepts as 'the worling ciass', 'the petty bourgeoisie' and 'the middle class' has preoccupied and often confused political debate and current economic analysis. With the adoption of programmes which involve the tactics and strategy of class alliances for common aims by Communist and Socialist parties in Western Europe, the correct differentiation of these concepts has become a crucial area of theoretical discussion with direct practical consequences in the political arena. This volume contains essays by leading IVIarxist scholars in the field and reflects the analytical scope and the political urgency of the debate between those with a strictly economic and those with a more flexible, social and ideologically conscious definition of class.
Contents:/l/a/7 Hunt, 'Introduction'; Stuart Hall, 'The "Political" and the "Economic" in IVIarx's theory of Classes'; Vic Alien,'The Differentiation of the Working C.\ass-, Alan Hunt, 'Theory and Politics in the Identification of the Working Class'; Nicos Poulantzas, The New Petty Bourgeoisie'; Paul Hirst, 'Economic Classes and Polities'; Jean Gardiner, 'Women in the Labour Process and Class Structure'; John Westergaard, 'Class, Inequality and "Corporatism" '
Alan Hunt is Assistant-Dean at Middlesex Polytechnic
Stuart Hall \s Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham
Vic Alien is Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds
Nicos Poulantzas is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Vincennes
Paul Hirst is Lecturer in Sociology, Birkbeck College, London
Jean Gardiner is Lecturer in the Department of Adult Education, University of Leeds
John Westergaard \s Professor of Sociology, University of Sheffield
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