In 1974, Maurice Zeitlin published a seminal article in "The
American Journal of Sociology," criticizing managerial theory and
evidence, which ended one era in the analysis of the large
corporation's ownership and control and began a new one. He called
for research on the capitalist class that would reveal its inner
structure--particularly the interaction of family ties, property,
and business leadership in the large corporation. But, despite the
subsequent blossoming of studies of intercorporate and class power,
no one else has yet done the systematic empirical analysis he
outlined. This work is thus the first to explore the full panoply
of intraclass relations--interorganizational, kinship, economic,
and political--within an actually existing dominant class.
Theoretically sensitive, methodologically precise, and historically
grounded, it aims to fill in the blank spots in our knowledge about
how "economic classes" become "social classes" and how the latter
in turn connect with other social forms.
This work is a sustained empirical analysis of Chile's dominant
class. But it does more than reveal that class's specific internal
structure; it also provides a coherent theory of the inner
relations constituting any dominant class in a highly concentrated
capitalist economy, a methodological paradigm, and an exemplary
body of findings, which can closely guide the study of other
dominant classes, especially in the "advanced" societies of the
West.
Originally published in 1988.
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