ISBN:
9780415571272
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (176 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Revivals
Series Statement:
Routledge Revivals Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Memories of Class (Routledge Revivals)
DDC:
305.509
Keywords:
Social classes ; History
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Social status ; History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
First published in 1982, Professor Bauman's discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial society. He investigates the impact of historical memory on the early transformation of rank into a class society, and on the current confusion in the analysis of the 'crisis of late-industrial society'.The book traces the formation of a class society back to the patterns of 'surveillance power' and contro
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Class: before and after. A preview; 2 From rank to class; 3 The self-assembly of class; 4 The tendency of industrial society: an interim summary; 5 Corporatism and its discontents; 6 New contradictions, new victims; Notes; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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