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The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies, Volume 4: Singular Experiences of Family, Work and Leisure book cover

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The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies, Volume 4 Singular Experiences of Family, Work and Leisure

By Will Atkinson Copyright 2025
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge
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This fourth volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies finishes the series by exploring how class infuses people’s past and present efforts to juggle family, work and leisure. Previous volumes in the series have examined the shape, history and cultural expressions of class structures in capitalist societies as well as their typical intersections with gender, race/ ethnicity, family... Read more

1. Introduction

2. The structures of everyday life

3. Constructing singular individuals

Part I: The US

4. When work disturbs family and lifestyles

5. When family disturbs work and lifestyles

Part II: Sweden

6. Variations on satisfaction

7. Variations on dissatisfaction

Part III: Germany

8. The struggles of mothers I: Beyond reproduction

9. The struggles of mothers II: Mobility and necessity

10. The struggles of men

Part IV: Conclusions and prospects

11. Conclusions and prospects

Appendix: On existing theories of borders and balances

Biography

Will Atkinson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of Class (2nd ed, 2024), Class in the New Millennium (2017) and Bourdieu and After (2020) as well as the other volumes in the Class Structure of Capitalist Societies series: A Space of Bounded Variety (2020), Social Space and Symbolic Domination in Three Nations (2022) and Love, Lifestyles and a Multiplicity of Capitals (2024).

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