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The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret (ILR Press books) (edition 2000)

by Michael Zweig

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In the second edition of his essential book-which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social crisis following 2008-Michael Zweig warns that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of "middle class" or "consumers," we also allow those with the dominant power, capitalists, to vanish among the rich. Economic relations then appear as comparisons of income or lifestyle rather than as what they truly are-contests of power, at work and in the larger society.… (more)
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Title:The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret (ILR Press books)
Authors:Michael Zweig
Info:Cornell Univ Pr (2000), Hardcover, 208 pages
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Why class is important and the underclass component. How a broad working class movement, often in alliance with segments of the professional middle class could reshape workplace and community power relations and national politics. ( )
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In the second edition of his essential book-which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social crisis following 2008-Michael Zweig warns that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of "middle class" or "consumers," we also allow those with the dominant power, capitalists, to vanish among the rich. Economic relations then appear as comparisons of income or lifestyle rather than as what they truly are-contests of power, at work and in the larger society.

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