Citizenship and Social Class

by Marshall, Trevor; Bottomore, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780745304762
• ISBN10: 0745304761
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-01-01
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

Over forty years after it first appeared, T.H. Marshall's seminal essay on citizenship and social class in postwar Britain has acquired the status of a classic. His lucid analysis of the principal elements of citizenship -- namely, the possession of civil, political and social rights -- is as relevant today as it was when it first appeared. It is reissued here with a complementary monography by Tom Bottomore in which the meaning of citizenship is re-examined, in very different historical circumstances. In asking how far the prospects for class equality have been realised, Bottomore continues the discussion in a context that encompasses the restoration of civil and political rights in Eastern Europe, problems of welfare capitalism, citizenship and the nation state and the broader issues of equality and democratic institutions.

Author Biography

T.H. Marshall was Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and President of the International Sociological Association Tom Bottomore was head of the Department of Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver and Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vi
Preface	p. vii
Citizenship and Social Class
The Problem Stated, with the Assistance of Alfred Marshall	p. 3
The Development of Citizenship to the 8 End of the Nineteenth Century	p. 8
The Early Impact of Citizenship on Social Class	p. 17
Social Rights in the Twentieth Century	p. 27
Conclusions	p. 44
Notes	p. 49
Citizenship and Social Class, Forty Years On
Citizens, Classes and Equality	p. 55
Capitalism, Socialism and Citizenship	p. 57
New Questions about Citizenship	p. 65
Changing Classes, Changing Doctrines	p. 73
A Kind of Conclusion	p. 83
Notes	p. 92
Bibliography	p. 94
Index	p. 97
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