Class formation, civil society and the state : a comparative analysis of Russia, France, the US and England /
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| Author / Creator: | Burrage, Michael. |
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. |
| Description: | ix, 454 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6832830 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. An English Obsession, Myth and Mystery
- Why no one answered Orwell
- England in cross-national surveys
- Questions and clues arising
- Chapter 2. Lessons from Comparative Theories
- Djilas's theory of a 'new class'
- Post-Marxist theories in Britain
- Comparison via correlation coefficients in the United States
- A bold step backwards
- Chapter 3. What Are Classes? And Who Forms and Dissolves Them?
- Class defined
- The two agents of class formation
- How will we identify classes?
- Chapter 4. Class Formation in Two Russias
- The official classes of Imperial Russia
- And the unofficial ones formed in civil society
- Continuities in the management of stratification in Soviet Russia
- Classes in the two Russias compared
- Chapter 5. Civil Society as Adversary and Collaborator in France
- A proletariat that preceded industrialization
- The social capital of the French working class
- Adaptation of their revolutionary script in the twentieth century
- Intellectuals appear in lieu of self-governing professionals
- The emergence of cadres and of a lesser bourgeoisie
- Has the Fifth Republic facilitated the formation of a ruling class?
- A short history of a long relationship
- Tested by a socialist U-turn and e-commerce
- The domain of pantoufleurs
- And their 'control practices'
- Are they a mandarinate or a class?
- Chapter 6. Civil Society Acts Alone in the United States
- Civil society restrains the state
- Deprofessionalization disbands the middle class
- Are American workers exceptional, or just different?
- Surges of working class solidarity
- Climax and decline
- Searching for class distinctions in everyday life
- Civic upper classes and aristocracies
- Obstacles to the formation of a ruling class
- Some reported sightings
- Chapter 7. Interim Conclusions from Three Societies
- Chapter 8. Re-examining the English Mystery
- The aristocracy as prototype
- The elites who succeeded them
- 'Issue areas' as a measure of elite integration
- The middle class organizes in corporate form
- Professionals v. entrepreneurs as class builders
- The working class inherits and re-invests its social capital
- When, why and how these two classes parted company
- Manual workers establish self-regulation in their workplaces
- Class solidarities compared
- A powerful agency of class formation
- What's in a name? Laissez faire versus laissez gouverner
- Chapter 9. Testing the Puzzle-solving Capacity of the Argument
- Why didn't an intelligentsia emerge in England?
- Why were trade unions not interested in class warfare?
- Why didn't public ownership reduce class consciousness?
- How could class consciousness be combined with high rates of mobility?
- Why did classes in England form a unique system?
- Chapter 10. A Brief Reply to Orwell
- Chapter 11. The Class System Comes to an End
- The themes and finality of Thatcher's reforms
- The hidden injuries of classlessness
- A final question about Orwell's 'wild ride into the darkness'
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
