Bringing Class Back In: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Preface 1 Introduction PART I CLASS STRUCTURE 2 The Conceptual Status of Class Structure in Class Analysis 3 Making Class: The Middle Class(es) in Social Theory and Social Structure 4 The Role of Capitalist Class Relations in the Restructuring of Medicine 5 Class Analysis and Studies of the U.S. Working Class: Theoretical, Conceptual, and Methodological Issues PART II CLASS FORMATION 6 Fraternal Orders and Working-Class Formation in Nineteenth-Century Kansas 7 Rural Industrialization: The Shaping of "Class" Relations in Rural Bangladesh 8 The Organization of the Corporate Class Segment of the U.S. Capitalist Class at the Turn of This Century PART III CLASS POWER, CONFLICT, AND STRUGGLE 9 The Class Basis of the State and the Origins of Welfare Policy in Britain, Sweden, and Germany 10 Three Cities, Three Socialisms: Class Relationships in Belgian Working-Ciass Communities, 1870-1914 11 The Politics of the Western Federation of Miners and the United Mine Workers of America: Uneven Development, Industry Structure, and Class Struggle 12 The Irish Land War: Peasants, Politics, and Parliament PART IV CULTURE, IDEOLOGY, AND CONSCIOUSNESS 13 Bringing Materialism Back In: Art in the Houses of the Working and Middle Classes 14 Talkin' Class: Discourse, Ideology, and Their Roles in Class Conflict 15 The Gender-Specific Class Consciousness of Appalachian Coal Miners: Structure and Change 16 Painting Socialism: Working-Class Formation in Hungary and Poland About the Book and Editors About the Contributors Index