A classic text by Rancière on the intellectual thought of French workers in the 19th century
In today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry canvas tote bags, and breast-feed their babies. They care about discreet, inconspicuou…
Connects the question of modernity to the formation of the Arab middle class. This book explores the rise of a middle class of liberal professionals during the 20th century in the Arab Middle East, and the ways its members created civil society, and new forms of politics, bodies…
The "public sphere" is widely debated in contemporary literary and cultural studies circles in the United States. The topic's significance underscores the pressing problem of the location of these contemporary debates: Is the "public sphere" a single authoritative and universal …
This comparative historical sociology of the Bolshevik revolutionaries offers a reinterpretation of political radicalization in the last years of the Russian Empire. Finding that two-thirds of the Bolshevik leadership were ethnic minorities - Ukrainians, Latvians, Georgians, Jew…
Decades ago, there was no distinct middle class in the People's Republic of China. Any meaningful discussion of China's economy, politics, or society must take into account the rapid emergence and explosive growth of the Chinese middle class. This book details the origins and ch…
Citizenship and social class
by Marshall, T. H., Bottomore, Tom, (Bottomore, Tom B.)
fromPluto classic
A monograph on the prospects for social equality in post-war Britain, followed by detailed consideration of what has in fact been achieved. Marshall discusses citizenship and social equality and Bottomore takes up these themes and discusses them in the wider perspective of Weste…
Farewell to the Leftist Working Class
by Houtman, Dick, Achterberg, Peter, Derks, Anton
Aspecter is haunting the long-standing class theory of politics - the specter of the rightist working class. Social conflicts and voting patterns in Western nations indicate a gradual erosion of working-class support for the left, a process that class theory itself cannot adequa…
Aims to show through a series of examples, how Marxian class analysis can be used to produce various insights about the problems of capitalist development and the possibilities of creating noncapitalist alternatives. This work assesses the rise of left wing regimes in Latin Amer…
