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Introduction





Hamilton Steelworkers and their Spouses: Unsettling the Core of the English-Canadian Working-Class





Social Position and Group Awareness





1. Elaborating the Classical Materialist Thesis



2. Amending the Classical Materialist Thesis



3. Towards a Multifaceted Version of Group Consciousness



4. Objective Interest and Subjective Identity



5. Dimensions of Social Subordination and Inequality



6. Core-Periphery Dynamics of the Proletariat





Direct Experience, Life History and Present Views





7. The Core of the Working-Class: Steeltown Profiles



8. Class Conflict and Class Consciousness



9. Race and Ethnic Consciousness



10. Gender Consciousness



11. The Critical Insights of Subordinated Viewpoints





Multiple Identities, the Integrated Self and Critical Thought





12. 'Contradictory' Consciousness



13. Postmodernism and Postmodernity



14. Mass Media Impacts



15. Market Atomization and Assertions of Collective Identity



16. Forms of Social Struggle





Conclusion: The Possibility of Transformative Class Consciousness





Appendix: The Hamilton Interviewees





Notes





References





Index

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