Bob Carter

Capitalism, Class Conflict and the New Middle Class

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781138965348
• ISBN-10: 1138965340
• Artikelnr.: 44146825

Autorenporträt

Authored by Carter, Bob

Inhaltsangabe

1. Sociology, Marxism and the Class Structure of Capitalist Societies 2.
Marx, Marxism and the New Middle Class 3. Monopoly Capitalism and the Rise
of the New Middle Class 4. The State and the New Middle Class 5. The Theory
of Middle-Class Trade Unionism 6. The Practice of Middle-Class Unionism 7.
Conclusion: The Politics of the New Middle Class