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Giddens, Anthony, and David Held (eds.). Classes, Power, and Conflict: Classical and Contemporary Debates. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982; L.: Macmillan, 1990.

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Preface	ix
I. Classical Views
Introduction	3
1. Karl Marx:
Selections from The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, The German Ideology, The Poverty of Philosophy, The Manifesto of the Communist Party, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, 'Value, Price, and Profit', and Capital, vols. 1 and 3	12
2. V. I. Lenin:
Selections from The Development of Capitalism in Russia, What Is to Be Done?, The State and Revolution, and A Great Beginning	40
3. Max Weber:
Selections from Economy and Society, vols. 1 and 2, and General Economic History	60
Selective Further Reading	87
II. Contemporary Theories of Class and Class Conflict
Introduction	93
4. Nicos Poulantzas:
On Social Classes	101
5. Erik Olin Wright:
Class Boundaries and Contradictory Class Locations	112
6. R.W.Connell:
A Critique of the Althusserian Approach to Class	130
7. Harry Braverman:
Capitalism and the Division of Labour	148
8. Anthony Giddens:
Class Structuration and Class Consciousness	157
9. Frank Parkin:
Social Closure and Class Formation	175
Selective Further Reading	185
III. Classes, Elites, and the State
Introduction	189
10. Maurice Zeitlin:
Corporate Ownership and Control: The Large Corporation and the Capitalist Class	196
11. Gфran Therborn:
What Does the Ruling Class Do When it Rules?	224
12. Claus Offe and Volker Ronge:
Theses on the Theory of the State	249
13. Boris Frankel:
On the State of the State: Marxist Theories of the State After Leninism	257
Selective Further Reading	274
IV. Technology, Conflict, and the Labour Market
Introduction	279
14. Stephen A. Marglin:
What Do the Bosses Do? The Origins and Functions of Hierarchy in Capitalist Production	285
15. E.P.Thompson:
Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism	299
16. David Stark:
Class Struggle and the Transformation of the Labour Process: A Relational Approach	310
17. Jill Rubery:
Structured Labour Markets, Worker Organisation, and Low Pay	330
Selective Further Reading	349
V. Class Consciousness and Ideology
Introduction	353
18. David Lockwood:
Sources of Variation in Working-Class Images of Society	359
19. Michael Mann:
The Social Cohesion of Liberal Democracy	373
20. Nicholas Abercrombie and Bryan S. Turner:
The Dominant Ideology Thesis	396
Selective Further Reading	415
VI. Capitalism, Gender and Patriarchy
Introduction	419
21. Elizabeth Garnsey:
Women's Work and Theories of Class and Stratification	425
22. Heidi Hartmann:
Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex	446
23. Jane Humphries:
Class Struggle and the Persistence of the Working-Class Family	470
Selective Further Reading	491
VII. Class, Race and the City
Introduction	495
24. Robert Blauner:
Colonised and Immigrant Minorities	501
25. Erik Olin Wright:
Race, Class, and Incom.e Inequality	520
26. David Harvey:
Labour, Capital, and Class Struggle Around the Built Environment m Advanced Capitalist Societies	545
Selective Further Reading	562
VIII. Classes in Eastern Europe
Introduction	567
27. Frank Parkin:
System Contradiction and Political Transformation	574
28.Alec Nove:
Is There a Ruling Class in the USSR?	588
29.Murray Yanowitch:
Work Hierarchy and Management "Participation" in the Soviet Union	605
30. Elizabeth Garnsey:
Growth Strategy, Competing Interests, and the Soviet Occupational System	629
Selective Further Reading	643
Acknowledgements	645