Social Class and the Division of Labour
Essays in Honour of Ilya Neustadt

This volume demonstrates that social divisions and conflicts can only be understood in light of an elaborated analysis of the division of labour.

Anthony Giddens (Edited by), Gavin MacKenzie (Edited by)

9780521288095, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 December 1982

356 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.52 kg

The problems of class analysis and the division of labour in industrial societies are of fundamental importance in the social sciences. Designed as a testimonial volume for Ilya Neustadt, Social Class and the Division of Labour provides a comprehensive discussion of the central issues of this debate. All the essays in this volume attempt to integrate theoretical debate and empirical investigation: some focus directly on the division of labour, considering especially Marxist views of its relation to class domination, while others are more concerned with the labour process as it currently exists in capitalist productions. The volume as a whole demonstrates forcibly that class divisions and class conflict can only be properly understood in conjunction with an elaborated analysis of the division of labour. The book represents a major contribution to class theory and analysis which will attract considerable attention amongst sociologists and economists, and become a standard textbook for undergraduates in these subjects.

Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
1. Marx and the abolition of the division of labour Ali Rattansi
2. Power, the dialectic of control and class structuration Anthony Giddens
3. Managing the frontier of control Graeme Salaman
4. Class boundaries and the labour process Gavin Mackenzie
5. Control and resistance on the assembly line Ely Chinoy
6. Fatalism: Durkheim's hidden theory of order David Lockwood
7. Work histories, career strategies and the class structure Richard Brown
8. Gender inequality and class formation Sheila Allen
9. The petty bourgeoisie and modern capitalism: a consideration of recent theories Richard Scase
10. On the service class, its formation and future John Goldthorpe
11. The state and the professions: peculiarities of the British Terry Johnson
12. Divisions within the dominant class and British 'exceptionalism' Geoffrey Ingham
13. Property and control: some remarks on the British propertied class John Scott
14. The division of labour, incomes policy and industrial democracy Paul Hirst
15. The political role of the working class in Western Europe Tom Bottomore
Notes to the text
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Social issues & processes [JFF]