Memories of Class. The Pre-history and After-life of Class

220 Pages·1982·36.591 MB·English

by  Zygmunt Bauman

Memories of class
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Memories of class
*pre-history
after-life of class
Zygmunt Bauman
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Bauman, Zygmunt.
Memories of class.
(International library of sociology;
Bibliography :
Includes index .
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Qs Social classes--History. I. II. .5'er'ies
HT62l.B38 1982 r= r 'I; . 09 82- 9828
ISBN 0~7100-Q196-6 AA CR 2
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
1 Class: before and after. A preview 1
2 From rank to class 34
From the management of surplus to the management
of people 38
The birth of the factory 51
The bid for total control 59
3 The self-assembly of class 77
The power~assisted unification 79
Memory against power 88
The 'ecorlomisatioIl' of class conflict 100
4 The tendency of industrial society- an interim
summary 113
5 Con-poratism and its discontents 125
Eoonomisation of politics 129
Corporatism, or simulated politics 136
fv- ultimate limits of economised politics 144
Split classes, or split souls? 156
6 New contradictions, new victims 164
The limits of social engineering 165
The rise and fall of economic growth 171
wand some possible consequences 179
The phenomenon of cumulative deprivation 185
Re»politicisation of politics 192
Notes 199
Index 207
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Acknowledgments
I am deeply grateful to Philip Abrams, Reinhard Bendix, Thomas
Bottomore, Anthony Girders, Ralph Miliband and Dennis Warwick,
read various parts of this work at various stages of its llllllllll
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production , offered their insightful criticism and invaluable
advice and greatly contributed to the ultimate maturation of the
project. I w. ish I could make a better . ; inspiring ideas
I owe them
Z.B. Leeds
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