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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778527203321

Autore

Bauman Zygmunt <1925-, >

Titolo

Memories of class : the pre-history and after-life of class / / Zygmunt Bauman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Boston : , : Routledge & Kegan Paul, , 1982

ISBN

1-135-15551-8

1-135-15552-6

1-282-97413-0

9786612974137

0-203-85720-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

Routledge revivals

Disciplina

305.509

Soggetti

Social classes - History

Social status - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Class: before and after. A preview; 2 From rank to class; 3 The self-assembly of class; 4 The tendency of industrial society: an interim summary; 5 Corporatism and its discontents; 6 New contradictions, new victims; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1982, Professor Bauman's discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial society. He investigates the impact of historical memory on the early transformation of rank into a class society, and on the current confusion in the analysis of the 'crisis of late-industrial society'.The book traces the formation of a class society back to the patterns of 'surveillance