Class Matters - Inequality and Exploitation in 21st Century Britain

Informationen zum Autor Charles Umney is a Lecturer at the University of Leeds. He teaches, researches and writes on the subjects of trade unionism, working conditions and employment policy across Europe, and has also published extensively on the topic of working life in live music. He is the author of Class Matters (Pluto, 2018). Klappentext "Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life. It is woven into the very fabric of social and political discourse, undiminished by the end of mass industry. In Class Matters, Charles Umney brings Marxist analysis out of the nineteenth century textile mills, and into the call centres, office blocks and fast food chains of modern Britain. He shows how core Marxist concepts are vital to understanding increasing pay inequality, decreasing job security, increasing routinisation and managerial control of the labour process. Providing a critical analysis of competing perspectives, Umney argues that class must be understood as a dynamic and exploitative process integral to capitalism - rather than a descriptive categorisation - in order for us to better understand the gains capital has made at the expense of labour over the last four decades"--Back cover. Zusammenfassung How class is structured in the call-centres! office blocks and fast-food chains of modern Britain.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Umney, Umney Charles
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2018
• EAN: 9780745337081
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3708-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 220 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Capitalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, 21st Century, Labour / income economics, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Labour Economics, Sociology: work & labour, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, For higher / tertiary / university education