Social Class and the Division of Labour: Essays in Honour of Ilya Neustadt

by Anthony Giddens (Editor), Gavin MacKenzie (Editor)

Overview

The problems of class analysis and the division of labour in industrial societies are of fundamental importance in the social sciences. Designed as a testimonial volume for Ilya Neustadt, Social Class and the Division of Labour provides a comprehensive discussion of the central issues of this debate. All the essays in this volume attempt to integrate theoretical debate and empirical investigation: some focus directly on the division of labour, considering especially Marxist views of its relation to class domination, while others are more concerned with the labour process as it currently exists in capitalist productions. The volume as a whole demonstrates forcibly that class divisions and class conflict can only be properly understood in conjunction with an elaborated analysis of the division of labour. The book represents a major contribution to class theory and analysis which will attract considerable attention amongst sociologists and economists, and become a standard textbook for undergraduates in these subjects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521288095
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/30/1982
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.79(d)

Table of Contents

Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Marx and the abolition of the division of labour Ali Rattansi; 2. Power, the dialectic of control and class structuration Anthony Giddens; 3. Managing the frontier of control Graeme Salaman; 4. Class boundaries and the labour process Gavin Mackenzie; 5. Control and resistance on the assembly line Ely Chinoy; 6. Fatalism: Durkheim's hidden theory of order David Lockwood; 7. Work histories, career strategies and the class structure Richard Brown; 8. Gender inequality and class formation Sheila Allen; 9. The petty bourgeoisie and modern capitalism: a consideration of recent theories Richard Scase; 10. On the service class, its formation and future John Goldthorpe; 11. The state and the professions: peculiarities of the British Terry Johnson; 12. Divisions within the dominant class and British 'exceptionalism' Geoffrey Ingham; 13. Property and control: some remarks on the British propertied class John Scott; 14. The division of labour, incomes policy and industrial democracy Paul Hirst; 15. The political role of the working class in Western Europe Tom Bottomore; Notes to the text; Bibliography; Index.