Social Class and Marxism
Defences and Challenges
Published on 5. July 2017
254 pages
978-1-351-89966-6 (ISBN)
Description
In recent years historians and other social scientists have widely questioned the continued relevance of social class - as historical relationship, as sociological category, as philosophical concept, and in terms of its enduring political significance. The success of the British Conservative Party since 1979, combined with the weaknesses and failures of the Labour movement, have led historians and social scientists to reconsider the general nature of connections between the 'social' and the 'political' and the specific relations between the working class and socialist and Labour politics. This collection of essays is a multi-disciplinary critique of the new revisionism, which demonstrates the continued vitality and promise of non-reductionist and non-determinist modes of class analysis.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
13,93 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-89966-6 (9781351899666)
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05/1996
1st Edition
Scolar Press
€200.89
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Person
Neville Kirk
Content
Contents: List of Contributors; Editor's Introduction; PART ONE: Sociological Perspectives; The "New Structuralism": Class Politics and Class Analysis, Fiona Devine; Space, Networks and Class Formation, Michael Savage; Class and the 'Linguistic Turn' in Chartist and Post-Chartist Historiography, Neville Kirk; PART TWO: Marxism; The Logic of Social Democracy: Adam Przeworski'sm Historical Theses, Robert Looker; Class Struggle, Capitalist Democracy and Rational Choice: Przeworski's Analytical Theses, Robert Looker; Roger Scruton and the New Left, David Coates; Reading Alistair Reid: A Future for Labour History?, David Howell; Index.
