Class : The Anthology.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- General Introduction -- How to Read This Book -- Part One The Working Class -- Chapter 1 Representing the Working Class -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The Realm of Freedom and The Magna Carta of the Legally Limited Working Day -- On the Realm of Necessity and the Realm of Freedom -- The Magna Carta of the Legally Limited Working Day -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class -- Notes -- Chapter 5 A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society -- Producerist and Consumerist Forms -- Toward the Living Wage -- Chapter 6 The Stop Watch and The Wooden Shoe Scientific Management and the Industrial Workers of the World -- Taylor and the "Art of Sweating" (1) -- The I.W.W. Turns to Guerilla Warfare -- Notes -- Chapter 7 The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community -- The Origins of the Capitalist Family -- The Exploitation of the Wageless -- Surplus Value and the Social Factory -- The Productivity of Wage Slavery Based on Unwaged Slavery -- A New Compass for Class Struggle -- The Refusal of Work -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Introduction -- Ladies of Labor: Fashion, Fiction, and Working Women's Culture -- Chapter 9 Three Strikes That Paved the Way -- Chapter 10 Jukebox Blowin' a Fuse: The Working-Class Roots of Rock-and-Roll -- Images of Work and Resistance in Rock 'n' Roll -- Chapter 11 Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 12 The Unmaking of the English Working Class: Deindustrialization, Reification, and Heavy Metal.

Deindustrialization, Working-Class Masculinity, and the Origins of Heavy Metal -- Reification and Class Consciousness in Heavy Metal -- Conclusion: Hell Awaits -- Chapter 13 The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work -- Introduction -- The Need to Reduce Working Hours -- Chapter 14 Shiftless of the World Unite! -- Chapter 15 Occupy the Hammock: The Sign of the Slacker behind Disturbances in the Will to Work -- The Return of the Repressed in New Working‐Class Organizing Efforts -- Discourse and Ideology in the Minimum‐Wage Debates -- The Figure of the Slacker and the Cultural Dimension of the Minimum‐Wage Debate -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part Two The Middle Class -- Chapter 16 The Vanishing Middle -- What Is the Middle Class? -- A Class Without Events -- The Routinization of the Intellect -- Back to the Future -- Chapter 17 The Struggle Over the Saloon -- Introduction -- The Rise of The Saloon -- The Struggle Over the Saloon, 1870-1910 -- Notes -- Chapter 18 The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany -- Selection -- Short Break for Ventilation -- Among Neighbours -- Shelter for the Homeless -- Notes -- Chapter 19 The Twilight of the Middle Class -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Notes -- Chapter 20 The Rise of Professionalism: A Sociological Analysis -- The Rise of Corporate Capitalism and the Consolidation of Professionalism -- Notes -- Chapter 21 The New Working Class -- The Differentiations Within the Working Class -- For a Marxist Sociology of Work -- Does Technological Alienation Exist? -- Is the New Working Class Revolutionary? -- Notes -- Chapter 22 Part Two How the University Works -- The Rhetoric of "Job Market" and the Reality of the Academic Labor System -- Job-Market Theory as Second-Wave Knowledge -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 23 Part Two The Mental Labor Problem -- The Cost of Idle Curiosity.

A Great Divide -- The Cultural Discount -- The Cost Disease -- New Model Workers -- Artists Cannot Afford to Be Rewarded Well? -- The Service Ideal -- A Volunteer Low-Wage Army? -- Education Enterpreneurs -- Second Thoughts -- Notes -- Chapter 24 Neoliberalism, Debt and Class Power -- Introduction: Debt, Crisis and Everyday Life -- Mortgage and Student Debt: From the 1950s through 2009 -- Mortgage Debt, Neoliberalism and Accumulation by Dispossession -- From Wage Discipline to Debt Control: Neoliberalism and Finance Capital -- Mortgage and Student Debt: Producing and Regulating Indebtedness -- Conclusion: The Society of Control is a Society in Debt, which is the Neoliberal Utopia -- Bibliography -- Part Three The Capitalist Class -- Chapter 25 The Capitalist Class: Accumulation, Crisis and Discipline -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- Notes -- Chapter 26 The Secret of Primitive Accumulation -- Chapter 27: The Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land -- Notes -- Chapter 27 The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 -- Introduction -- 8 The Culture of Capital -- 9 The Rights of Labor, The Rights of Property -- Chapter 28 Class Struggle and the New Deal Industrial Labor, Industrial Capital, and the State -- Chapter One The Capitalist State, Class Relations, and the New Deal -- Chapter 2 The Process of Capitalist Development -- Chapter Five The Monopoly Debate and Intracapitalist Conflict -- Notes -- Chapter 29 Scientific Management -- Chapter 4 Scientific Management -- Chapter 6 The Habituation of the Worker to the Capitalist Mode of Production -- Notes -- Chapter 30 Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Dream -- Preface -- 4 The Eight-Hour Day -- 6 Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Dream -- 8 Labor Turns from Shorter Hours to Full-Time, Full Employment.

Notes -- Chapter 31 Nixon's Class Struggle -- I -- II -- III -- VI -- VIII -- IX -- XI -- Notes -- Chapter 32 The Global Reserve Army of Labor and the New Imperialism -- Global Labor Arbitrage -- The Global Reserve Army -- The New Imperialism -- Notes -- Chapter 33 The End of Retirement -- Whither Retirement? -- The Erosion of the U.S. Retirement Security System -- Explaining the Shift from Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution Plans -- The Implications for Workers -- Pension Reform -- Jobs and the Older American -- Notes -- Chapter 34 The Politics of Austerity and the Ikarian Dream -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- EULA.

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