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Michael Mann
Social Sciences
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Introduction
The main disadvantage of asking the question, ‘Is the working class still a force for revolutionary change in the West?’, is that most readers will already have decided on an answer. Yet the nature of this ans...
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Working-Class Consciousness — Alienation and Economism
The anti-Marxist approach to these matters could actually take one of three alternative forms, and I will consider them in turn:
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Capitalist Hegemony
In this section I wish to present, somewhat tentatively, a modified version of the ‘end of ideology’ theory. I will argue that, where capitalism becomes hegemonic and eliminates ‘archaic’ institutions, the divers...
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The New Working Class and the Production of Knowledge
The main theorists considered in this section are the French sociologists Alain Touraine and Serge Mallet. Though their arguments overlap, they are not identical. Their writings are ambiguous in several ways, ...
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Industrial Relations in Advanced Capitalism
The values of the countries with which I am dealing remain today identifiably capitalist to the extent that they remain committed to a liberal market view of ethics and society. According to this view, freedom...
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International Variations in Consciousness
In France and Italy working-class organisations stand out in marked contrast to those of most other Western countries. Their largest working-class parties and trade-union federations (the C.G.T. in France, the...
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The Explosion of Consciousness
The starting-point for the thesis of the explosion of consciousness is a quotation from Marx which has become one of the favourites of twentieth-century Marxists:
It is not a question of what thi...
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Conclusion
Before turning to more complex questions of theory we can quickly dismiss the harmonistic tinge of the more extreme versions of ‘the end of ideology’ thesis. Even relatively successful bargaining between emplo...
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The Working Class and the Labour Market
The labour market is a central area of capitalist society. It has also been of crucial importance in the development of theory in both sociology and economics. Yet, apart from economists’ studies of wage-rates...
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Conclusions
We began the account of our research in Chapter 2, relating the population from which we sampled — male manual workers whose jobs did not require them to be qualified by apprentice training — to the other majo...
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Jobs in the Labour Market
We come now to a consideration of the jobs available to the manual workers without relevant occupational qualifications. Our aim in this chapter is to examine the ways in which the different job characteristic...
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Enter the Workers: Knowledge and Preferences in the Labour Market
In the two previous chapters we examined the range of job choices objectively available to the worker. Though we concluded that this range is severely restricted by hierarchical elements of the market outside ...
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Orientations and Job Experience
We turn now to a consideration of the relevance of orientations in the general experience and action of the workers, looking at their influence and the forces that influence them. This involves examining the r...
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Stratification Within the Manual Working Class
In the last three chapters we have concentrated on the problem of the worker’s degree of choice in the labour market. We found that despite the many constraints we traced in earlier chapters, certain restricte...
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The Choice of a Labour Market
We wished to undertake an intensive study of one labour market, and this obviously involved setting boundaries to our study. Our first empirical problem was to delineate our labour market both geographically a...
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Firms in the Labour Market
In the previous chapter we analysed the component parts of individual jobs. To make statements about the overall labour market, we simply summed up these jobs and concluded that a certain degree of hierarchy, ...
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Orientations to Work
In the previous chapter we noted that some workers evaluated employment opportunities in terms of persistent preference for one type of reward. We now ask whether such preferences are part of a wider mental se...
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Orientations and Social Background
So far we have established the existence of orientations, and argued that they are not just a product of experience in the present job. The question which now arises is, “Where do the orientations come from?” ...
