Class (eBook)

The Anthology

Stanley Aronowitz, Michael J. Roberts (Herausgeber)

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2017
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-39550-8 (ISBN)

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Using an innovative framework, this reader examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations.

• Uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines scholarship from political economy, social history, and cultural studies
• Brings together more than 50 selections rich in theory and empirical detail that span the working, middle, and capitalist classes
• Analyzes class within the larger context of labor, particularly as it relates to conflicts over and about work
• Provides insight into the current crisis in the global capitalist system, including the Occupy Wall Street Movement, the explosion of Arab Spring, and the emergence of class conflict in China

STANLEY ARONOWITZ is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. He is also Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology, and Work at the Graduate Center. He is the author of twenty-five books, including The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Worker's Movement (2014); Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals (2012); Against Schooling: For an Education that Matters (2008); Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future (2006); and How Class Works (2003).

MICHAEL JAMES ROBERTS is Associate Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University, USA. He is the author of Tell Tchaikovsky the News: Rock'n'Roll, the Labor Question and the Musicians' Union 1942-1968 (2014), which was nominated for the annual Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book by the American Sociological Association's section on culture. His work has also been published in the journals Critical Sociology, Race & Class, Rethinking Marxism, Mobilization, Popular Music, and The Sociological Quarterly.

Inhalt

Title Page 5
Copyright Page 6
Contents 7
General Introduction 9
How to Read This Book 19
Part One The Working Class 25
Chapter 1 Representing the Working Class 27
I 28
II 33
III 39
Notes 45
Chapter 2 The Realm of Freedom and The Magna Carta of the Legally Limited Working Day 47
On the Realm of Necessity and the Realm of Freedom 47
The Magna Carta of the Legally Limited Working Day 48
Notes 49
Chapter 3 Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism 51
Notes 61
Chapter 4 The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class 65
Notes 76
Chapter 5 A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society 81
Producerist and Consumerist Forms 85
Toward the Living Wage 87
Chapter 6 The Stop Watch and The Wooden Shoe Scientific Management and the Industrial Workers of the World 93
Taylor and the “Art of Sweating” (1) 93
The I.W.W. Turns to Guerilla Warfare 95
Notes 100
Chapter 7 The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community 103
The Origins of the Capitalist Family 104
The Exploitation of the Wageless 104
Surplus Value and the Social Factory 105
The Productivity of Wage Slavery Based on Unwaged Slavery 106
A New Compass for Class Struggle 107
The Refusal of Work 108
Notes 109
Chapter 8 Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 111
Introduction 111
Ladies of Labor: Fashion, Fiction, and Working Women’s Culture 115
Chapter 9 Three Strikes That Paved the Way 127
Chapter 10 Jukebox Blowin’ a Fuse: The Working-Class Roots of Rock-and-Roll 135
Images of Work and Resistance in Rock ’n’ Roll 138
Chapter 11 Labor’s Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism 149
Introduction 149
Notes 160
Chapter 12 The Unmaking of the English Working Class: Deindustrialization, Reification, and Heavy Metal 165
Deindustrialization, Working-Class Masculinity, and the Origins of Heavy Metal 166
Reification and Class Consciousness in Heavy Metal 168
Conclusion: Hell Awaits 173
Chapter 13 The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work 175
Introduction 175
The Need to Reduce Working Hours 185
Chapter 14 Shiftless of the World Unite! 189
Chapter 15 Occupy the Hammock: The Sign of the Slacker behind Disturbances in the Will to Work 195
The Return of the Repressed in New Working?Class Organizing Efforts 195
Discourse and Ideology in the Minimum?Wage Debates 198
The Figure of the Slacker and the Cultural Dimension of the Minimum?Wage Debate 203
Conclusion 208
Notes 210
Part Two The Middle Class 215
Chapter 16 The Vanishing Middle 217
What Is the Middle Class? 217
A Class Without Events 221
The Routinization of the Intellect 225
Back to the Future 226
Chapter 17 The Struggle Over the Saloon 229
Introduction 229
The Rise of The Saloon 230
The Struggle Over the Saloon, 1870–1910 231
Notes 241
Chapter 18 The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany 245
Selection 245
Short Break for Ventilation 247
Among Neighbours 248
Shelter for the Homeless 248
Notes 251
Chapter 19 The Twilight of the Middle Class 253
Introduction 253
Chapter One 267
Notes 279
Chapter 20 The Rise of Professionalism: A Sociological Analysis 287
The Rise of Corporate Capitalism and the Consolidation of Professionalism 287
Notes 305
Chapter 21 The New Working Class 311
The Differentiations Within the Working Class 311
For a Marxist Sociology of Work 313
Does Technological Alienation Exist? 315
Is the New Working Class Revolutionary? 317
Notes 322
Chapter 22 Part Two How the University Works 323
The Rhetoric of “Job Market” and the Reality of the Academic Labor System 323
Job-Market Theory as Second-Wave Knowledge 328
Notes 336
Works Cited 336
Chapter 23 Part Two The Mental Labor Problem 339
The Cost of Idle Curiosity 340
A Great Divide 341
The Cultural Discount 342
The Cost Disease 344
New Model Workers 345
Artists Cannot Afford to Be Rewarded Well? 347
The Service Ideal 350
A Volunteer Low-Wage Army? 354
Education Enterpreneurs 355
Second Thoughts 357
Notes 359
Chapter 24 Neoliberalism, Debt and Class Power 361
Introduction: Debt, Crisis and Everyday Life 361
Mortgage and Student Debt: From the 1950s through 2009 362
Mortgage Debt, Neoliberalism and Accumulation by Dispossession 364
From Wage Discipline to Debt Control: Neoliberalism and Finance Capital 367
Mortgage and Student Debt: Producing and Regulating Indebtedness 368
Conclusion: The Society of Control is a Society in Debt, which is the Neoliberal Utopia 371
Bibliography 372
Part Three The Capitalist Class 375
Chapter 25 The Capitalist Class: Accumulation, Crisis and Discipline 377
I 378
II 381
III 384
IV 390
V 394
VI 397
VII 404
Notes 405
Chapter 26 The Secret of Primitive Accumulation 407
Chapter 27: The Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land 409
Notes 414
Chapter 27 The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896 417
Introduction 417
8 The Culture of Capital 421
9 The Rights of Labor, The Rights of Property 426
Chapter 28 Class Struggle and the New Deal Industrial Labor, Industrial Capital, and the State 437
Chapter One The Capitalist State, Class Relations, and the New Deal 437
Chapter 2 The Process of Capitalist Development 442
Chapter Five The Monopoly Debate and Intracapitalist Conflict 450
Notes 458
Chapter 29 Scientific Management 461
Chapter 4 Scientific Management 461
Chapter 6 The Habituation of the Worker to the Capitalist Mode of Production 465
Notes 471
Chapter 30 Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Dream 473
Preface 473
4 The Eight-Hour Day 475
6 Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Dream 478
8 Labor Turns from Shorter Hours to Full-Time, Full Employment 483
Notes 486
Chapter 31 Nixon’s Class Struggle 491
I 492
II 495
III 497
VI 499
VIII 500
IX 502
XI 504
Notes 505
Chapter 32 The Global Reserve Army of Labor and the New Imperialism 509
Global Labor Arbitrage 515
The Global Reserve Army 518
The New Imperialism 522
Notes 523
Chapter 33 The End of Retirement 527
Whither Retirement? 528
The Erosion of the U.S. Retirement Security System 529
Explaining the Shift from Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution Plans 531
The Implications for Workers 531
Pension Reform 533
Jobs and the Older American 534
Notes 535
Chapter 34 The Politics of Austerity and the Ikarian Dream 537
Selected Bibliography 543
Index 547
EULA 567

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.6.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Austerity • blue collar • Capitalism • Class Relations • Cultural Studies • Intellectuals • Kulturwissenschaften • Labor • middle class • Philosophie • Philosophy • Political & Economic Philosophy • Politische u. Ökonomische Philosophie • Politische u. Ökonomische Philosophie • Social History • Social Identity • socioeconomic • Sociology • Soziale Identität • Soziale Identität • Soziologie • Unions • White Collar • Working Class
• ISBN-10: 1-119-39550-X / 111939550X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-39550-8 / 9781119395508