Class matters : : inequality and exploitation in twenty-first century Britain / / Charles Umney.

• VerfasserIn: Umney, Charles,
• Place / Publishing House: London, England : : Pluto Press,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (225 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

"Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life. It is woven into the very fabric of social and political discourse, undiminished by the end of mass industry. In Class Matters, Charles Umney brings Marxist analysis out of the nineteenth century textile mills, and into the call centres, office blocks and fast food chains of modern Britain. He shows how core Marxist concepts are vital to understanding increasing pay inequality, decreasing job security, increasing routinisation and managerial control of the labour process. Providing a critical analysis of competing perspectives, Umney argues that class must be understood as a dynamic and exploitative process integral to capitalism - rather than a descriptive categorisation - in order for us to better understand the gains capital has made at the expense of labour over the last four decades"--Back cover.

Table of Contents

The Rest of the Book -- 1. The 'Economy that Works for Everyone' -- Platitudes -- Class Since the Financial Crisis -- Class and Classification in Academia -- 2. Alien Powers: Class in Marxist Thought -- Conflict in the Workplace -- Dependency and Discipline -- Subordination of the Individual -- Alien Powers and Loss of Control -- Beyond Production -- 3. Changing Class Dynamics in Britain -- Introduction -- Inequality and the Balance of Class Power in Britain -- Financialisation, Capital and Class Discipline -- Labour Discipline and 'Precarity' -- Conclusion -- 4. Jobs -- Workplace Control -- Conflict, Resistance and Class Power -- 5. Government -- Adequate Forms and Alien Powers -- Public Services and Capital -- Blood Sacrifices to Alien Powers -- 6. Class and Equality -- Class, 'Identity Politics' and Cosmopolitans -- Marxism and Feminism -- Equality and Capital -- Capital and Immigration -- 7. Technology -- The Means of Evaluation -- Capitalism and the Wasting of Resources -- 8. Media and Ideology -- Common Sense -- The News Media -- Marxist Views on Ideology -- 9. Conclusion -- Summary -- Capital and the Future -- Final Thoughts: Britain after the 2017 General Election.