Zeitlin / Ratcliff Landlords and Capitalists

The Dominant Class of Chile
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5953-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 316 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

In 1974, Maurice Zeitlin published a seminal article in The American Journal of Sociology, criticizing managerial theory and evidence, which ended one era in the analysis of the large corporation's ownership and control and began a new one. He called for research on the capitalist class that would reveal its inner structure--particularly the interaction of family ties, property, and business leadership in the large corporation. But, despite the subsequent blossoming of studies of intercorporate and class power, no one else has yet done the systematic empirical analysis he outlined. This work is thus the first to explore the full panoply of intraclass relations--interorganizational, kinship, economic, and political--within an actually existing dominant class. Theoretically sensitive, methodologically precise, and historically grounded, it aims to fill in the blank spots in our knowledge about how "economic classes" become "social classes" and how the latter in turn connect with other social forms.

This work is a sustained empirical analysis of Chile's dominant class. But it does more than reveal that class's specific internal structure; it also provides a coherent theory of the inner relations constituting any dominant class in a highly concentrated capitalist economy, a methodological paradigm, and an exemplary body of findings, which can closely guide the study of other dominant classes, especially in the "advanced" societies of the West.

Originally published in 1988.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Zeitlin, Maurice

Ratcliff, Richard Earl

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. viii
List of Tables, pg. x
List of Figures, pg. xviii
Preface, pg. xx
Acknowledgments, pg. xxiv
Introduction. Inside the Dominant Class, pg. 1
Chapter One. Corporate Ownership and Control: The Large Corporation and the Capitalist Class, pg. 15
Chapter Two. "New Princes" for Old?, pg. 76
Chapter Three. Finance Capital, pg. 108
Chapter Four. Landlords and Capitalists, pg. 146
Chapter Five. Land, Capital, and Political Hegemony, pg. 186
Chapter Six. The Ties that Bind, pg. 215
Epilogue. The Color of the Rose, pg. 252
References, pg. 259
Index, pg. 285