Between Labor and CapitalPat Walker The lead essay by Barbara and John Ehrenreich opens the debate about the nature of the "middle class." Do those who work between labor and capital constitute a third class, or will different sectors tend to ally with either the working class or the capitalist class, or is a whole new conception of the dynamics of social change necessary? |
Contents
The ProfessionalManagerial Class | 5 |
A Critique and Extension of the PMC | 49 |
Why Class? | 67 |
The Human Dimension | 97 |
A Critique | 121 |
Between the Lines | 143 |
New Left Knots | 173 |
Intellectuals and the Class Structure | 191 |
The ProfessionalManagerial Class | 213 |
Women as a New Revolutionary Class | 279 |
Rejoinder | 313 |
Contributors | 335 |
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