Class Struggles

Description

In the 1960s and 1970s the study of history and sociology was heavily influenced by Marxism and theories of class. But the collapse of Communism and significant changes in culture and society threw the study of class into crisis. Its most basic premises were called into question.

More recently accelerating globalisation, proliferating multinational corporations and unbridled free-market capitalism have given the study of class a new significance and caused historians and sociologists to revisit the debate.

This book looks at the changes that caused the crisis in the study of class and shows how new, vibrant theories have appeared that will drive forward our understanding of history and sociology.

Contents

Introduction

PART 1: CLASSICAL FOUNDATIONS

1. The Making of Class

2. Class and Class Consciousness

PART 2: CULTURE AGAINST SOCIETY

3. The Cultural Turn

4. From Social to Cultural History

5. The Language of Class

PART 3: FOREGROUNDING OTHERS

6. Foregrounding Gender

7. Foregrounding Race

8. Class and Beyond.

Conclusion

Features

• Draws together the latest research for a full appreciation of the field

• Provides the breadth of coverage and context useful for those studying history, sociology and cultural studies

• Demonstrtes the relationship between class and related areas such as gender, race, and postcolonial studies

• While the main focus is on British scholarship, it also discusses scholarly developments in France, the United States, and South Asia

Author
Dennis Dworkin is Associate Professor and Department Chair of the History Department of the Universityof Nevada, Reno. He teaches courses in British and Irish history, intellectual history, and cultural theory. His previous publications include (coedited with Leslie G. Roman), Views Beyond the Border Country: Raymond Williams and Cultural Politics (1993) and Cultural Marxism and Postwar Britain: History, the New Left and the Origins of Cultural Studies (1997).