A general framework for studying class consciousness and class formation

Class Counts ◽  
2000 ◽  
pp. 185-215
Keyword(s):  
General Framework ◽  
Class Formation ◽  
Class Consciousness

Confrontation, Class Consciousness, and the Labor Process: Studies in Proletarian Class Formation.

Social Forces ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 564
Author(s):  
Michael W. Macy ◽  
Michael Hanagan ◽  
Charles Stephenson
Keyword(s):  
Labor Process ◽  
Class Formation ◽  
Class Consciousness ◽  
Process Studies

Politics in Kenya: The Development of Peasant Society

1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Leys
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Class Formation ◽  
Class Consciousness ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Peasant Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Client Relationships ◽  
Stratification System

The central question which this article attempts to raise is how we should understand the social structure that is emerging from the neo-colonial pattern of change in Africa, and what implications it has for politics. In its simplest form, the question is how far a stratification system is developing which is likely to make for class formation, class consciousness, and a politics of class struggle; or how far stratification can be contained within a predominantly peasant society, expressed politically in patron-client relationships.

Class formation and capitalism. A second look at a classic

1996 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret R. Somers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Class Formation ◽  
Class Consciousness ◽  
Full Extent ◽  
Second Look ◽  
The Individual

Studies of class-formation have long been dominated by an espitemology of absensethe study of the absence of Marx's predicted revolutionary class consciousness among the Western working class. Katznelson's and Zolberg's pathbreaking Working-Class Formation: Ninetenth-century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States (1986) posed a major challenge to this tradition. Instead of being seen as deviant or exceptional, moreover, the individual cases of class formation are analysed as variations that can only be explained by each nation's pattern of historicalprimarily politicalformation. An instant classic, Working-Class Formation has not to date been surpassed by subsequent studies. This essay reviews the strenghts and the weaknesses of this classic volume, suggesting in the final analysis that it does not quite realize the full extent of its radical implications.

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