Rethinking Class and Social Difference.

Cover -- RETHINKING CLASS AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCE -- POLITICAL POWER AND SOCIAL THEORY -- SENIOR EDITORIAL BOARD -- STUDENT EDITORIAL BOARD -- RETHINKING CLASS AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCE -- Copyright -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- Introducing Rethinking Class and Social Difference: A Dynamic Asymmetry Approach -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Fraught History of Class Primacy -- Turning to the Primacy of Culture -- The Multicausal Approach of Interdependence and Intersectionality -- The Black Radical Challenge -- A Dynamic Asymmetry? -- Layout of Volume -- References -- Caught in the Countryside: Race, Class, and Punishment in Rural America -- Abstract -- The Limitations of a Racial Disparities Lens -- The Shifting Demographics of the Carceral State -- Geographic Disparities and the Carceral State -- The Emerging Culture of Control in the Countryside -- Crime, Punishment, and the Culture of Poverty in Rural America -- The Urban War on Drugs -- "Breaking Bad" in Rural America -- The Prison Construction Boom in the Countryside -- Conclusion -- References -- Is the National Front Republican and Does It Matter? Class, Culture, and the Rise of the Nationalist Right -- Abstract -- The Dédiabolisation of the National Front -- The National Front and the Working Class -- The Republic against the National Front -- Accounting for the Shift in the Working-class Vote -- Nationalism and the Disarticulation of Class -- Conclusion -- References -- The Great Equalizer Reproduces Inequality: How the Digital Divide Is a Class Power Divide -- Abstract -- Digital Divide and Class Divide Scholarship -- Digital Content -- Digital Activism -- Digital Work -- Conclusion -- References -- Unraveling the Middle Classes in Postrevolutionary Iran -- Abstract -- The Iranian Middle Class: Analysis versus Practice.

Differentiating Theories of Middle-class Formation -- Iran after the 1979 Revolution: The Making and Unmaking of Middle Classes -- Conclusion: Middle Class Protest in an Era of Hegemonic Decline -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Just Work: Sex Work at the Intersections -- Abstract -- Theorizing Class in Sex Work -- Intersectionality and Indian Feminism -- Gender, Class, Caste, and the Multiple Paths into Sex Work -- Conclusion -- References -- Applying the Black Radical Tradition: Class, Race, and a New Foundation for Studies of Development -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Black Radical Tradition -- Integrated Attention to Class and Racialization through Colonial Relations -- Analyze the Racial Character of Inter- and Intraclass Alliances/Conflicts -- Recognize Colonized Racialized Subjects as Agents of Social Change and Development -- Class Analyses of Development -- How Do Countries Achieve Industrialization and Economic Growth? -- How Do Countries Create and Maintain Democratic Institutions, Lower Levels of Inequality, and Greater Social Well-being Whi ... -- "Ethnicity" and Development, but away with Race and Class -- The BRT and Reinvigorating development studies -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Of Home and Whom: Embeddedness of Law in the Regulation of Difference -- Abstract -- Research on the Complexities of Paid Domestic Work -- The Long-Organized "Unorganizable" -- A Constant Presence, a Shifting Population: New York City's Domestic Workers -- Methods -- Racialized Histories of Domestic Workers' Legal Exclusion -- Embeddedness of Law and the Regulation of Difference -- The Law, for Whom -- The Law, at Home -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Minimum Wage Coverage -- Overtime Rate Coverage -- Additional Rights -- INDEX.

This volume draws together scholars rethinking social scientific and theoretical approaches to a wide range of forms of social difference and inequality. These include race, nationalism, sexuality, professional classes, domestic employment, digital communication, and uneven economic development.

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