Class Struggles

Dennis L. Dworkin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781317866503
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Historiography
• Index: History

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.

Index

Abu-Lughod, Lila 173

affluence 37, 39–40, 52, 69

Affluent Worker in the Class Structure, The (Goldthorpe et al.) 37

African diaspora 177

African-Americans see blacks

Agulhon, Maurice 93

Alabama Communist Party 171–2

Alexander, Sally 139, 154

Allen, Theodore

The Invention of the White Race 181

Althusser, Louis 8, 42, 65, 66, 87, 112, 118, 146, 164, 165

American Civil War 178

American feminist historians 145

Amin, Shahid 190, 191, 194

Amizade, Ronald 96

Anderson, Perry 8, 112, 118

Annales school 46, 48, 90, 112

anthropology, cultural 98

architecture

and postmodernism 70

Arnesen, Eric

“Whiteness and the Historian’s Imagination” 185–6

Arnold, David 190, 191, 194, 196

“Gramsci and Peasant Subalternity in India” 195–6

Arnold, Matthew 1

Auslander, Leora

“Perceptions of Beauty and the Problem of Consciousness” 97

Awadh peasants’ revolt 194, 199

Baldwin, James 180

Barrett, James 186

Barrett, Michèle

Women’s Oppression Today 147

Barthes, Roland 65, 121, 164, 200

base–superstructure model 23, 65, 66, 72, 74, 87, 97, 125, 182, 192, 213

Baudrillard, Jean 80

Bauman, Zygmunt 81–2, 83, 93, 127

Intimations of Postmodernity 215

Beard, Charles 45

Belchem, John ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface to the series
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Section One: Classical foundations
• Section Two: Culture against society
• Section Three: Foregrounding others
• Conclusion
• Guide to key reading
• References
• Index