Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class

Line Rennwald currently works on the ERC Advanced Grant “Unequal Democracies” at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She previously held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Lausanne and the European University Institute.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: A reflection on classes; a reflection on parties.- Chapter 3: Were social democratic parties really more working-class in the past?.- Chapter 4: The class basis of social democracy at the beginning of the twenty-first century.- Chapter 5: Parties' changing political projects and workers' political attitudes.- Chapter 6: Renewing social democracy by re-mobilising the working class.