Renewing Class Analysis

by Crompton, Rosemary; Devine, Fiona; Savage, Mike; Scott, John

• ISBN13: 9780631221876
• ISBN10: 0631221875
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Blackwell Pub

Summary

This collection advances contemporary debates in class analysis by offering a range of new empirical research on emergent forms of social stratification and by re-thinking the intersection between economic change, social polarization, and the remaking of class relations.It is edited by leading sociologists of class, and brings together outstanding British and international writers.

Table of Contents

Introduction: the state of class analysis	1	(15)
Rosemary Crompton
John Scott
Employment relations and class structure	16	(27)
Aage B. Sorensen
Social position from narrative data	43	(23)
Jonathan Gershuny
Class inequality and the social production of money	66	(21)
Geoffrey Ingham
Social polarization in the electronic economy	87	(20)
Jan Pahl
Logics of urban polarization: the view from below	107	(13)
Loic Wacquant
Employment, unemployment and social polarization: young people and cyclical transitions	120	(21)
Robert MacDonald
Jane Marsh
Late twentieth century workplace relations: class struggle without classes	141	(24)
Paul Edwards
The gendered restructuring of the middle classes: employment and caring	165	(19)
Rosemary Crompton
Conclusion: renewing class analysis	184	(16)
Fiona Devine
Mike Savage
Notes on contributors	200	(3)
Index	203