Social Class and Marxism: Defences and Challenges

Social Class and Marxism: Defences and Challenges
ISBN-10
1351899651
ISBN-13
9781351899659
Category
History
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2017-07-05
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Neville Kirk

Description

In recent years historians and other social scientists have widely questioned the continued relevance of social class - as historical relationship, as sociological category, as philosophical concept, and in terms of its enduring political significance. The success of the British Conservative Party since 1979, combined with the weaknesses and failures of the Labour movement, have led historians and social scientists to reconsider the general nature of connections between the 'social' and the 'political' and the specific relations between the working class and socialist and Labour politics. This collection of essays is a multi-disciplinary critique of the new revisionism, which demonstrates the continued vitality and promise of non-reductionist and non-determinist modes of class analysis.

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