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Class Counts, Student Edition.

This textbook provides a lively and penetrating exploration of the concept of class and its relevance for understanding a wide range of issues in contemporary society. Erik Olin Wright combines a sophisticated account of central and enduring questions in social theory with practical analyses of deta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wright, Erik Olin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Colección:Studies in Marxism and social theory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Preface to student edition; Preface to original edition; Acknowledgments; 1. Class analysis; 2. Class structure; 3. The transformation of the American class structure, 1960"1990; 4. The fall and rise of the American petty bourgeoisie; 5. The permeability of class boundaries; 6. Conceptualizing the interaction of class and gender; 7. Individuals, families and class analysis; 8. The noneffects of class on the gendered division of labor in the home; 9. The gender gap in workplace authority; 10. A general framework for studying class consciousness and class formation.
  • 11. Class structure, class consciousness and class formation in Sweden, the United States and Japan12. Confirmations, surprises and theoretical reconstructions; References; Index of names; Index of subjects.