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Classes (Paperback, New edition)
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Classes (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Verso Classics
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Class analysis and class struggle are central concepts in Marx's
social theory yet, notoriously, Marx never wrote a systematic
exposition of these terms during his lifetime, and succeeding
generations have had to piece together interpretations from his
many scattered references and discussions. The problem of trying to
develop a Marxist class analysis on this basis has been made all
the more acute by changes in the class structure of advanced
capitalism, for these have thrown up a bewildering range of new
social strata which seem to be difficult to reconcile with the many
traditional understandings of class. In Classes, Erik Olin Wright,
one of the foremost Marxist sociologists and class theorists, rises
to the twofold challenge of both clarifying the abstract,
structural account of class implicit in Marx, and of applying and
refining the account in the light of contemporary developments in
advanced capitalist societies. Recentering the concept of class on
the process of exploitation, Wright discusses his famous notion of
"contradictory class locations" in relation to the empirical
complexities of the middle class, and he provides an analysis of
class structure in "post-capitalist" societies. Wright then goes on
to draw out the implications of his approach and to submit it to
detailed empirical testing with the use of a trans-national survey
of class structure and consciousness.
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