04495nam 22006615 450 991056469510332120230810174819.03-030-97355-710.1007/978-3-030-97355-1(MiAaPQ)EBC6962001(Au-PeEL)EBL6962001(CKB)21605800400041(DE-He213)978-3-030-97355-1(EXLCZ)992160580040004120220423d2022 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Working Class from Marx to Our Times /by Marcelo Badaró Mattos1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2022.1 online resource (204 pages)Marx, Engels, and Marxisms,2524-7131Print version: Mattos, Marcelo Badaró The Working Class from Marx to Our Times Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030973544 Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index.1. Introduction -- 2. Marx, Marxism and the working class -- 3. Workers today -- 4. The debate on the working class today -- 5. The recent historiographical debate on the working class -- 6. Final Considerations.“With verve and impressive erudition Marcelo Badaró Mattos tackles a big subject: the historical and sociological debates on Marx’s notion of the working class. Applying a global historical approach, he proves that the concept is—despite the many controversies it has caused—still indispensable for understanding our world. I highly recommend this sophisticated and challenging study.” — Marcel van der Linden, Senior Researcher, International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands ”The Working Class from Marx to Our Times is truly a tour de force, an analytic sweep through the conceptual and practical issues that engage those confronting capitalism and its devastating impact on 21st-century lives. It addresses old thought and new subjects, doing so with exhilarating imagination. A must-read for all who value rigorous intelligence and demand social justice.” —Bryan D. Palmer, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada “This new book by Marcelo Badaró Mattos takes up a crucial theme of our time: who is the working class and how it is configured. The author takes a suggestive journey to demonstrate how the Marxian conception of the working class is broad and complex and rejects any reductionism.” — Ricardo Antunes, Professor of Sociology, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil This book reviews Marx’s contributions to the debate on the working class. It also presents exercises of dialogue between Marx’s and Marxists’ discussions on the working class and empirical elements of class reality today, as well as debates in the social sciences and historiography on the same issues. The thesis defended in the book is simple: the “working class,” also called the “proletariat,” as it appears in the work of Karl Marx, had and has validity as an analytical category. Nevertheless, Marx’s discussion on the issue is complex and the category in his approach is wider than many Marxists have presented it. Marcelo Badaró Mattos is Full Professor of Brazilian History at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. He is the author of Laborers and Enslaved Workers (2017).Marx, Engels, and Marxisms,2524-7131Political scienceMarxian school of sociologyPolitical sociologyPolitical sciencePhilosophyPolitical TheoryMarxist SociologyPolitical SociologyPolitical PhilosophyPolitical science.Marxian school of sociology.Political sociology.Political sciencePhilosophy.Political Theory.Marxist Sociology.Political Sociology.Political Philosophy.335.4305.562Mattos Marcelo Badaró1223123Freitas RebeccaMoore SemajMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910564695103321The Working Class from Marx to Our Times2837451UNINA