Reworking Class

The twelve essays in this volume propose new directions in the analysis of class. John R. Hall argues that recent historical and intellectual developments require reworking basic assumptions about classes and their dynamics. The contributors effectively abandon the notion of a transcendent class struggle. They seek instead to understand the historically contingent ways in which economic interests are pursued under institutionally, socially, and culturally structured circumstances.

In his introduction, Hall proposes a neo-Weberian venue intended to bring the most promising contemporary approaches to class analysis into productive exchange with one other. Some of the chapters that follow rework how classes are conceptualized. Others offer historical and sociological reflections on questions of class identity. A third cluster focuses on the politics of class mobilizations and social movements in contexts of national and global economic change.

About the Authors

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Acknowledgments

ix

(2)

Foreword

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Patrick Joyce

INTRODUCTION The Reworking of Class Analysis

1

(40)

John R. Hall

PART I Changing Cultures of Class Analysis

41

(128)

CHAPTER 1 Rethinking, Once Again, the Concept of Class Structure

41

(32)

Erik Olin Wright

CHAPTER 2 Deconstructing and Reconstructing Class Formation Theory: Narrativity, Relational Analysis, and Social Theory

73

(34)

Margaret R. Somers

CHAPTER 3 Statistical Classifications and the Salience of Social Class

107

(26)

Michael Donnelly

CHAPTER 4 Class Formation and the Quintessential Worker

133

(36)

Sonya O. Rose

PART II Cultural Structurings of Class Identities

169

(118)

CHAPTER 5 Work and Culture in the Reception of Class Ideologies

169

(24)

Richard Biernacki

CHAPTER 6 The Meaning of Class and Race: French and American Workers Discuss Differences

193

(28)

Michele Lamont

CHAPTER 7 Rethinking Cultural and Economic Capital

221

(22)

Jan C. C. Rupp

CHAPTER 8 Cannery Row: Class, Community, and the Social Construction of History

243

(44)

John Walton

PART III The Economic, the Social, and the Political Agencies of Class

287

(112)

CHAPTER 9 World of Capital Worlds of Labor: A Global Perspective

287

(26)

Dale Tomich

CHAPTER 10 Class Location versus Market Interests in Macropolitical Behavior: The Social Origins of the German Nazi Party

313

(22)

William Brustein

CHAPTER 11 Social Class and the Reemergence of the Radical Right in Contemporary Germany

335

(34)

George Steinmetz

CHAPTER 12 Class Analysis and Social Movements: A Critique and Reformulation

369

(30)

J. Craig Jenkins

Kevin Leicht

Index

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