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STANLEY ARONOWITZ is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. He is also Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology, and Work at the Graduate Center. He is the author of twenty-five books, including The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Worker's Movement (2014); Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals (2012); Against Schooling: For an Education that Matters (2008); Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future (2006); and How Class Works (2003). MICHAEL JAMES ROBERTS is Associate Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University, USA. He is the author of Tell Tchaikovsky the News: Rock'n'Roll, the Labor Question and the Musicians' Union 1942-1968 (2014), which was nominated for the annual Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book by the American Sociological Association's section on culture. His work has also been published in the journals Critical Sociology, Race & Class, Rethinking Marxism, Mobilization, Popular Music, and The Sociological Quarterly.

• General Introduction viiHow to Read This Book xviiPart One The Working Class1 Representing the Working Class 3Michael J. Roberts2 The Realm of Freedom and The Magna Carta of the Legally Limited Working Day 23Karl Marx3 Time, Work‐Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism 27E. P. Thompson4 The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class 41David R. Roediger5 A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society 57Lawrence B. Glickman6 The Stop Watch and The Wooden Shoe: Scientific Management and the Industrial Workers of the World 69Mike Davis7 The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community 79Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James8 Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 87Nan Enstad9 Three Strikes That Paved the Way 103Art Preis10 Jukebox Blowin’ a Fuse: The Working‐Class Roots of Rock‐and‐Roll 111Michael J. Roberts11 Labor’s Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism 125Jonathan Cutler12 The Unmaking of the English Working Class: Deindustrialization, Reification, and Heavy Metal 141Ryan M. Moore13 The Jobless Future: Sci‐Tech and the Dogma of Work 151Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio14 Shiftless of the World Unite! 165Robin D.G. Kelley15 Occupy the Hammock: The Sign of the Slacker behind Disturbances in the Will to Work 171Michael J. RobertsPart Two The Middle Class16 The Vanishing Middle 193Stanley Aronowitz17 The Struggle Over the Saloon 205Roy Rosenzweig18 The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany 221Siegfried Kracauer19 The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post‐World War II American Fiction and White‐Collar Work 229Andrew Hoberek20 The Rise of Professionalism: A Sociological Analysis 263Magali Sarfatti Larson21 The New Working Class 287Serge Mallet22 How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low‐Wage Nation 299Marc Bousquet23 The Mental Labor Problem 315Andrew Ross24 Neoliberalism, Debt and Class Power 337Justin Sean MyersPart Three The Capitalist Class25 The Capitalist Class: Accumulation, Crisis and Discipline 353Michael J. Roberts26 The Secret of Primitive Accumulation 383Karl Marx27 The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896 393Sven Beckert28 Class Struggle and the New Deal: Industrial Labor, Industrial Capital, and the State 413Rhonda F. Levine29 Scientific Management 437Harry Braverman30 Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Dream 449Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt31 Nixon’s Class Struggle 467Jefferson Cowie32 The Global Reserve Army of Labor and the New Imperialism 485John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney33 The End of Retirement 503Teresa Ghilarducci34 The Politics of Austerity and the Ikarian Dream 513Kristin LawlerSelected Bibliography 519Index 523