The Working Class from Marx to Our Times

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-97357-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 276 g

Reihe: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

This book reviews Marx's contributions to the debate on the working class. The first part of the work presents the synthesis of the main contributions of Marx and Engels (and 20 century Marxist writers) to the understanding of social classes, the class struggle, and the working class. The remaining parts present exercises of dialogue between Marx's and Marxists’ discussions on the working class, presented in the first part, and empirical elements of class reality today, as well as debates in the social sciences and historiography on the same issues. The thesis defended in the book is simple: the "working class,” also called the "proletariat,” as it appears in the work of Karl Marx, had and has validity as an analytical category for the understanding of social life under capitalism. Nevertheless, Marx’s discussion on the issue is complex and the category “working class” in his approach is wider than many Marxists have presented it.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mattos, Marcelo Badaró

Weitere Mitwirkende

Freitas, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1-      Introduction

2-      Marx, Marxism and the working class

Marx, Engels and the class movements

A matter of vocabulary?

Class in its material/economic existence

Class in its material/economic existence

Class Consciousness

New subjects?

3-      Workers today

Workers of the world!

Workers of Brazil!

Returning to Marx

4-      The debate on the working class today

Class exhaustion?

                        New Subjects? (II)

5-      The recent historiographical debate on the working class

The making of the class in debate

Beyond Eurocentrism (beyond Marx?)

Subaltern workers, subaltern classes, working class

6-      Final Considerations

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marcelo Badaró Mattos is Full Professor of Brazilian History at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. He is the author of Laborers and Enslaved Workers. Experiences in Common in the making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class - 1850–1920 (2017), as well as several other books, articles and chapters on labour history and Marxism.