Class

Using an innovative framework, this reader examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations.
* Uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines scholarship from political economy, social history, and cultural studies
* Brings together more than 50 selections rich in theory and empirical detail that span the working, middle, and capitalist classes
* Analyzes class within the larger context of labor, particularly as it relates to conflicts over and about work
* Provides insight into the current crisis in the global capitalist system, including the Occupy Wall Street Movement, the explosion of Arab Spring, and the emergence of class conflict in China