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Erik Olin Wright’s Classes stands as a landmark contribution to Marxist sociology and class analysis. This influential work provides a rigorous theoretical framework for understanding class structure in advanced capitalist societies, moving beyond traditional binary class divisions to explore the complexities of modern economic stratification.
Wright synthesizes insights from historical materialism with contemporary sociological research to examine how class positions are determined by control over productive assets, labor power, and organizational hierarchies. The book addresses how class consciousness develops and influences social movements, politics, and cultural production.
Essential for scholars of sociology, political economy, and critical theory, Classes remains vital for understanding inequality, labor relations, and the foundations of modern capitalism. This Verso Classics edition makes Wright’s groundbreaking analysis accessible to new generations of readers interested in structural social theory and the material basis of social organization.
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