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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781550103321

Autore

Zweig Michael <1942->

Titolo

The working class majority [[electronic resource] ] : America's best kept secret / / Michael Zweig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : ILR Press, 2012

ISBN

1-5017-4678-2

0-8014-6478-1

0-8014-6431-5

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

305.5/620973

Soggetti

Working class - United States

Working class - Political activity - United States

United States Economic conditions 1981-2001

United States Economic conditions 2001-2009

United States Social conditions 1980-2020

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The class structure of the United States -- What we think about when we think about class -- Why is class important? -- Looking at "the underclass" -- Looking at values, family and otherwise -- The working class and power -- Power and globalization -- Power and the government -- Into the millennium.

Sommario/riassunto

In the second edition of his essential book-which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social crisis following 2008-Michael Zweig warns that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of "middle class" or "consumers," we also allow those with the dominant power, capitalists, to vanish among the rich. Economic relations then appear as comparisons of income or lifestyle rather than as what they truly are-contests of power, at work and in the larger society.