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Capitalism, Class Conflict and the New Middle Class (RLE Social Theory) (Hardcover)
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Capitalism, Class Conflict and the New Middle Class (RLE Social Theory) (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
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Non-manual workers are fast becoming the largest occupational
category in Western capitalist countries. This is the first book to
present a detailed socialist analysis of this much discussed change
in the class structure of contemporary capitalism. Focusing on the
class position of managerial and supervisory workers, Robert Carter
takes as his starting-point the inadequacy of both orthodox Marxist
and Weberian models of class relations. Rather, he concurs with
recent structuralist theorists of class who maintain that there
exists between capital and labour in the process of producing a new
middle class. He parts company from the work of these theorists,
however, in his insistence that the organisation and consciousness
of the new middle class have also to be examined because of the
practical consequences these have on class relations. The book
therefore examines the historical rise of the middle class, both in
the private and the state sector, together with the tendency of the
class to respond to its changing relations with capital and labour
by unionising. It is sharply critical of the dominant models of the
causes and nature of white-collar unionism - both industrial
relations and Weberian ones - and indeed rejects these models in
favour of a perspective which views the extent and nature of
middle-class unionism within the dynamics of class relations.
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