Social Class and the Division of Labour: Essays in Honour of Ilya Neustadt

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Summary

This volume demonstrates that social divisions and conflicts can only be understood in light of an elaborated analysis of the division of labour.

Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
Marx and the abolition of the division of labour
Power, the dialectic of control and class structuration
Managing the frontier of control
Class boundaries and the labour process
Control and resistance on the assembly line
Fatalism: Durkheim's hidden theory of order
Work histories, career strategies and the class structure
Gender inequality and class formation
The petty bourgeoisie and modern capitalism: a consideration of recent theories
On the service class, its formation and future
The state and the professions: peculiarities of the British
Divisions within the dominant class and British 'exceptionalism'
Property and control: some remarks on the British propertied class
The division of labour, incomes policy and industrial democracy
The political role of the working class in Western Europe
Notes to the text
Bibliography
Index
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