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Wright, Erik Olin

Understanding Class - New York Verso 2015 - 260p

1. From Grand Paradigm Battles to Pragmatist Realism: Towards an Integrated Class Analysis

Part I: Frameworks of Class Analysis
2. The Shadow of Exploitation in Weber's Class Analysis
3. Metatheoretical Foundations of Charles Tilly's Durable Inequality
4. Class, Exploitation, and Economic Rents: Reflections on Sorensen's "Toward a Sounder Basis for Class Analysis"
5. Michael Mann's Two Frameworks of Class Analysis

Part II: Class in the Twenty-First Century
6. Occupations as Micro-classes: David Grusky and Kim Weeden's Reconfiguration of Class Analysis
7. The Ambiguities of Class in Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century
8. The Death of Class Debate
9. Is the Precariat a Class?

Part III: Class Struggle and Class Compromise
10. Beneficial Constraints: Beneficial for Whom?
11. Working Class Power, Capitalist Class Interests, and Class Compromise
12. Class Struggle and Class Compromise in the Era of Stagnation and Crisis

ISBN: 9781781689455

Subjects--Personal Names:
Social Classes

Dewey Class. No.: 305.5 / WRI