Class Counts combines theoretical discussions of the concept of class with a wide range of comparative empirical investigations of class.
Author(s): Erik Olin Wright
Series: Studies in Marxism and Social Theory
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: xxxv, 576 p. :
City: Cambridge
Frontmatter
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Class analysis
Part I The class structure of capitalism and its transformations
2 Class structure comparative perspective
3 The transformation of the American class structure, 1960-1990
4 The fall and rise of the American petty bourgeoisie
Part II The permeability of class boundaries
5 Class-boundary permeability: conceptual and methodological issues
6 Permeability of class boundaries to intergenerational mobility
7 Cross-class friendships
8 Cross-class families
Part III Class and gender
9 Conceptualizing the interaction of class and gender
10 Individuals, families and class analysis
11 The noneffects of class on the gendered division of labor in the home
12 The gender gap in workplace authority
Part IV Class structure and class consciousness
13 A general framework for studying class consciousness and class formation
14 Class consciousness and class formation in Sweden, the United States, and Japan
15 Class, state employment and consciousness
16 Temporality, class structure and class consciousness
Part V Conclusion
17 Confirmations, surprises and theoretical reconstructions
References
Index
of names
of subjects
