Understanding class

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What are the causes of inequality in capitalist society? Erik Olin Wright returns to the fundamental concept underlying this question, and interrogates the different theories and paradigms that have arisen for understanding it. Beginning with class analysis in Marx and Weber, proceeding through the writings of Charles Tilly and others, and finally examining how class struggle and class compromise play out in contemporary society, this book provides a complex view of how to think through inequality.

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From grand paradigm battles to pragmatist realism : towards an integrated class analysis -- Frameworks of class analysis. The shadow of exploitation in Weber's class analysis ; Metatheoretical foundations of Charles Tilly's Durable Inequality ; Class, exploitation, and economic rents : reflections on Sørensen's "Toward a sounder basis for class analysis" ; Michael Mann's two frameworks of class analysis -- Class in the twenty-first century. Occupations as micro-classes : David Grusky and Kim Weeden's reconfiguration of class analysis ; The ambiguities of class in Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century ; The death of class debate ; Is the precariat a class? -- Class struggle and class compromise. Beneficial constraints : beneficial for whom? ; Working class power, capitalist class interests, and class compromise ; Class struggle and class compromise in the era of stagnation and crisis