Social Stratification and Economic Change

David Rose

List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Part I: Theoretical Issues 2. Intellectuals and the working class in modern Britain 3. The weakest link in the chain? Some comments on the Marxist theory of action 4. Some remarks on the study of working-class consciousness 5. Neither angels in marble nor rebels in red: privatization and working-class consciousness Part II: Empirical Research 6. After redundancy: economic experience and political outlook among former steel employees in Sheffield 7. Conceptualizing the place of redundant steelworkers in the class structure 8. Political quiescence among the unemployed in modern Britain 9. Ideologies of work 10. Tackling subordination during economic decline: a pattern of business proprietorship among women 11. Anxieties and ambitions: The petit bourgeoisie and the New Right in Britain Bibliography Index