Rethinking Class and Social Difference: (37 Political Power and Social Theory)

Rethinking Class and Social Difference brings together contributions from scholars developing new social scientific and theoretical approaches to a wide range of differing forms of social difference and inequality, especially as they are rooted in and informed by the political economy of capitalism. These include race, nationalism, sexuality, professional classes, domestic employment, digital communication and uneven economic development. The volume is brought together by a focus on how seemingly class-neutral processes of social difference and inequality is deeply related to class inequality. Ultimately, the volume argues for a brave rethinking of the ways that class and other forms of social difference are bound together.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction; Barry Eidlin, and Michael McCarthy Chapter 2. Caught in the Countryside: Race, Class, and Punishment in Rural America; Marie Gottschalk  Chapter 3. Is the National Front Republican and Does it Matter? Class, Culture, and the Rise of the Nationalist Right; Mathieu Hikaru Desan  Chapter 4. The Great Equalizer Reproduces Inequality: How the Digital Divide is a Class Power Divide; Jen Schradie  Chapter 5. Unraveling the Middle Classes in Post-revolutionary Iran; Kevan Harris  Chapter 6. Just Work: Sex Work at the Intersections; Gowri Vijaykumar  Chapter 7. Applying the Black Radical Tradition: Class, Race, and a New Foundation for Studies of Development; Zophia Edwards  Chapter 8. Of Home and Whom: Embeddedness of Law in the Regulation of Difference; Katherine Eva Maich

About the Author :
Barry Eidlin is Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University, Canada. He is the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (2018) and has published research in many esteemed journals, including the American Sociological Review, Politics & Society, Labor Studies Journal and Sociology Compass, amongst others. He has also written for broader audiences in various media outlets such as the Washington Post and Jacobin Magazine.  Michael A. McCarthy is Associate Professor of Sociology at Marquette University, USA. His book, Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal (2017) was awarded the Paul Sweezy Book Award by the American Sociological Association. His research has been published at Annual Review of Sociology, Critical Historical Studies, Labor Studies Journal, Socio-Economic Review, and Work & Occupations. He is also a regular contributor at Jacobin Magazine.