Using an innovative framework, this reader examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations. Uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines scholarship from political economy, social history, and cultural studies Brings together more than 50 selections rich in theory and empirical detail that span the working, middle, and capitalist classes Analyzes class within the larger context of labor, particularly as it relates to conflicts over and about work Provides insight into the current crisis in the global capitalist system, including the Occupy Wall Street Movement, the explosion of Arab Spring, and the emergence of class conflict in China INDICE: General Introduction vii .How to Read This Book xvii .Part One The Working Class .1 Representing the Working Class 3 .2 The Realm of Freedom and The Magna Carta of the Legally Limited Working Day 23 .3 Time, Work–Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism 27 .4 The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class 41 .5 A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society 57 .6 The Stop Watch and The Wooden Shoe: Scientific Management and the Industrial Workers of the World 69 .7 The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community 79 .8 Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 87 .9 Three Strikes That Paved the Way 103 .10 Jukebox Blowin a Fuse: The Working–Class Roots of Rock–and–Roll 111 .11 Labor s Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism 125 .12 The Unmaking of the English Working Class: Deindustrialization, Reification, and Heavy Metal 141 .13 The Jobless Future: Sci–Tech and the Dogma of Work 151 .14 Shiftless of the World Unite! 165 .15 Occupy the Hammock: The Sign of the Slacker behind Disturbances in the Will to Work 171 .Part Two The Middle Class .16 The Vanishing Middle 193 .17 The Struggle Over the Saloon 205 .18 The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany 221 .19 The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post–World War II American Fiction and White–Collar Work 229 .20 The Rise of Professionalism: A Sociological Analysis 263 .21 The New Working Class 287 .22 How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low–Wage Nation 299 .23 The Mental Labor Problem 315 .24 Neoliberalism, Debt and Class Power 337 .Part Three The Capitalist Class .25 The Capitalist Class: Accumulation, Crisis and Discipline 353 .26 The Secret of Primitive Accumulation 383 .27 The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850 1896 393 .28 Class Struggle and the New Deal: Industrial Labor, Industrial Capital, and the State 413 .29 Scientific Management 437 .30 Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt s New Dream 449 .31 Nixon s Class Struggle 467 .32 The Global Reserve Army of Labor and the New Imperialism 485 .33 The End of Retirement 503 .34 The Politics of Austerity and the Ikarian Dream 513 .Selected Bibliography 519 .Index 523
- ISBN: 978-0-631-22498-3
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 568
- Fecha Publicación: 15/09/2017
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés
- Inicio /
- /