Capitalism, Class Conflict, and the New Middle Class - Couverture rigide

Carter, R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0710096240 ISBN 13 : 9780710096241

Editeur : Routledge, 1985

Synopsis

This book has hardback covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In good all round condition.No dust jacket.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Non-manual workers are fast becoming the largest occupational category in Western capitalist countries. This is the first book to present a detailed socialist analysis of this much discussed change in the class structure of contemporary capitalism.

Focusing on the class position of managerial and supervisory workers, Robert Carter takes as his starting-point the inadequacy of both orthodox Marxist and Weberian models of class relations. Rather, he concurs with recent structuralist theorists of class who maintain that there exists between capital and labour in the process of producing a new middle class. He parts company from the work of these theorists, however, in his insistence that the organisation and consciousness of the new middle class have also to be examined because of the practical consequences these have on class relations.

The book therefore examines the historical rise of the middle class, both in the private and the state sector, together with the tendency of the class to respond to its changing relations with capital and labour by unionising. It is sharply critical of the dominant models of the causes and nature of white-collar unionism – both industrial relations and Weberian ones – and indeed rejects these models in favour of a perspective which views the extent and nature of middle-class unionism within the dynamics of class relations.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0710096240
• ISBN 13: 9780710096241
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 282
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible