1st Edition

The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies Volume 1: A Space of Bounded Variety

By Will Atkinson Copyright 2020
222 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This first volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies offers a bold and wide-ranging assessment of the shape and effects of class systems across a diverse range of capitalist nations. Plumbing a trove of data and deploying cutting-edge techniques, it carefully maps the distribution of the key sources of power and documents the major convergences and divergences between market... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Constructing the Spaces

3. Social Spaces

4. The Division of Labour of Domination

5. Homologies

6. Trajectories

7. Political Position-Takings

8. Class Sense and Symbolic Violence

9. Conclusion

Biography

Will Atkinson is Professor of Sociology in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.