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Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism is for those who want to understand the underlying connections among today’s social justice movements.Bringing forth the basic operations of capitalist economies, it reveals what is driving many of today’s most urgent and vexing problems: the common origins of the inequalities of income, wealth, and power; environmental devastation; militarism; racism and white supremacy; patriarchy and male chauvinism; periodic economic crises; and the cultural conflicts that are tearing at US life.
Michael Zweig illuminates all propositions with specific examples from US history, from the first settlement of the New World to current life, including his own lived experiences as an activist, educator, and organizer over the past six decades. As such, the book is an urgently needed resource for activists and organizers seeking structural and moral transformation of life in the US. Building on his analysis, Zweig also presents strategies for political action in electoral and movement-building work.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Who Is Speaking
Chapter Two: How Do We Know What We Know?
Chapter Three: The Economy—Basics
Chapter Four: Classes and Surplus in Capitalism
Chapter Five: The Economy Has Consequences
Chapter Six: Religion, Values, and Culture
Chapter Seven: Race and Gender in Class Society
Chapter Eight: Navigating Race and Class
Chapter Nine: Progressive Politics
Chapter Ten: Political Practice
Chapter Eleven: Socialism
Acknowledgements
Index
About the author
Michael Zweig, emeritus professor of economics and
founding director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook, received the SUNY
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. His past books include
Religion and Economic Justice; The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret; and
What's Class Got to Do with It? American Society in the Twenty-First Century. From 2005 to 2006, he served as executive producer of the documentary
Meeting Face to Face: The Iraq-U.S. Labor Solidarity Tour. In 2009 he wrote, produced, and directed the film
Why Are We in Afghanistan? which won the Working Class Studies Association Studs Terkel Award for
media and journalism. In 2014 he received their award for lifetime
contributions to the field of working-class studies.
Summary
Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism is for those who want to understand the underlying connections among today’s social justice movements.
Bringing forth the basic operations of capitalist economies, it reveals what is driving many of today’s most urgent and vexing problems: the common origins of the inequalities of income, wealth, and power; environmental devastation; militarism; racism and white supremacy; patriarchy and male chauvinism; periodic economic crises; and the cultural conflicts that are tearing at US life.
Michael Zweig illuminates all propositions with specific examples from US history, from the first settlement of the New World to current life, including his own lived experiences as an activist, educator, and organizer over the past six decades. As such, the book is an urgently needed resource for activists and organizers seeking structural and moral transformation of life in the US. Building on his analysis, Zweig also presents strategies for political action in electoral and movement-building work.
