Repositioning Class: Social Inequality in Industrial Societies

Introduction Class and Class Analysis in the 1990s PART ONE: SOCIAL THEORY Distributional Struggle and Moral Order in a Market Society The Promising Future of Class Analysis A Response to Recent Critiques PART TWO: METHOD AND MEASUREMENT Classes in Britain Marxist and Official Social Class and Underclass in Britain and the USA Class, Gender and the Asymmetry Hypothesis PART THREE: SOCIAL MOBILITY Proletarianization in the British Class Structure? Intergenerational Social Mobility in Communist Russia Intergenerational Class Processes and the Asymmetry Hypothesis PART FOUR: SOCIAL JUSTICE Social Class and Social Justice Was Communism Good for Social Justice? A Comparative Analysis of the Two Germanies