"This volume is a "poster book" for those who (like the reviewer) feel that a well-informed qualitative approach is generally far superior to a porrly-informed quantitative analysis." -- Perspectives on PoliticalScience

• Chapter 1 Modes of Class Formation; Chapter 2 CHAPTER 2 Pathways to Capitalist Democracy; Chapter 3 CHAPTER 3 The Formation of Class Fractions; Chapter 4 Chapter 4 The Logic of Particularism; Chapter 5 CHAPTER 5 The Political Contours of Class Conflict in the Gilded Age; Chapter 6 CHAPTER 6 The Limits of Particularism; Chapter 7 CHAPTER 7 Homogeneous Labor and Class Formation; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Bibliography; Index;