Overview
- Brings together complexity, critical realism and place to form a fresh approach to understanding the dynamics of class structure and identities
- Brings industry back into the class debate
- Pursues a new analysis of the changing nature of capitalist society, in order to enliven and push forward thinking about social class
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The transition to twenty-first century post-industrial capitalism from the ‘welfare’ industrial capitalism of the twentieth century, has affected the ways in which class is lived in terms of relational inequality and the factors that structure identity. Class After Industry takes a complex realist approach to the dynamics of individual lives, places, the social structure and analyses their significance in terms of class. A wide range of quantitative and qualitative studies are drawn on to explore how ‘life after industry’ shapes class, and the consequent potential for social change. The book will be of interest across the social sciences and beyond, to those concerned with how class forms might translate into political action.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
David Byrne is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Durham University, UK. He has written on issues of inequality, methodology, and the complexity frame of reference. Books include Social Exclusion (2005), Applying Social Science (2011), Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences – The State of the Art (with Callaghan, 2014), and Paying for the Welfare State in the 21st Century (with Ruane, 2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Class After Industry
Book Subtitle: A Complex Realist Approach
Authors: David Byrne
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02644-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02643-1Published: 01 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02644-8Published: 22 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 136
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Industrial Organization, Social Theory, Demography, Politics of the Welfare State, Labor History