1st Edition

The Social Analysis of Class Structure

Edited By Frank Parkin Copyright 1974

    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
    This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
    Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1974 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

    Chapter 1 Strategies of Social Closure in Class Formation, FRANK PARKIN; Chapter 2 The Labour Aristocracy in the Victorian Class Structure, ROBERT Q. GRAY; Chapter 3 Race and Ethnicity in Class Formation: A Comparison of Asian and West Indian Workers, SHEILA ALLEN, CHRISTOPHER SMITH; Chapter 4 Towards a Theory of Social Stratification, W. G. RUNCIMAN; Chapter 5 The Petits Bourgeois in the Class Structure: the Case of the Small Shopkeepers, FRANK BECHHOFER, BRIAN ELLIOTT, MONICA RUSHFORTH, RICHARD BLAND; Chapter 6 Officialdom and Class: Bases of Inequality in Socialist Society, ZYGMUNT BAUMAN; Chapter 7 Conceptions of the Class Structure and Political Ideology: Some Observations on Attitudes in England and Sweden, RICHARD SCASE; Chapter 8 Sexual Inequality and Stratification Theory, CHRIS MIDDLETON; Chapter 9 Education and Social Mobility in France, JANE MARCEAU; Chapter 10 The ‘Affluent Worker’ Study: An Evaluation and Critique, GAVIN MACKENZIE; Chapter 11 Market Socialism and Class Structure: Manual Workers and Managerial Power in the Yugoslav Enterprise, LESLIE BENSON; Chapter 12 ‘Working Class Incorporation’—A Historical Approach with Reference to the Mining Communities of S.E. Northumberland 1840-1890, J. M. COUSINS, R. L. DAVIS;

    Biography

    Frank Parkin