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9780801488993

What's Class Got to Do with It? : American Society in the Twenty-First Century

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    9780801488993

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    0801488990

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-04-01
  • Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. The Challenge of Working Class Studies
Michael Zweig
1(18)
Part I. The Mosaic of Class, Race, and Gender 19(42)
When Feminism Had Class
Dorothy Sue Cobble
23(12)
How Race Enters Class in the United States
Bill Fletcher Jr.
35(10)
The Tangled Knot of Race and Class in the United States
R. Jeffrey Lustig
45(16)
Part II. Class in a Global Economy 61(50)
Neoliberalism and Anticorporate Globalization as Class Struggle
William K. Tabb
63(14)
September 11 and Its Aftermath through the Lens of Class
Leo Panitch
77(17)
Global Strategies for Workers: How Class Analysis Clarifies Us and Them and What We Need to Do
Katie Quan
94(17)
Part III. Class and Working People 111(30)
Neoliberal Social Policy and Labor Market Discipline
Frances Fox Piven
113(12)
Economic Crisis, the Working Class, and Organized Labor
Michael D. Yates
125(16)
Part IV. Class and Young Adults 141(44)
Young Workers, Economic Inequality, and Collective Action
Gregory DeFreitas and Niev Duffy
143(18)
Promises to Keep: Working Class Students and Higher Education
Michelle M. Tokarczyk
161(7)
Across the Great Divide: Crossing Classes and Clashing Cultures
Barbara Jensen
168(17)
Notes 185(16)
List of Contributors 201(2)
Index 203

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