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Index
Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
General Introduction
How to Read This Book
PART ONE: The Working Class
CHAPTER 1: Representing the Working Class
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II
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CHAPTER 2: The Realm of Freedom and The Magna Carta of the Legally Limited Working Day
On the Realm of Necessity and the Realm of Freedom
The Magna Carta of the Legally Limited Working Day
CHAPTER 3: Time, Work‐Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism
CHAPTER 4: The Wages of Whiteness
CHAPTER 5: A Living Wage
Producerist and Consumerist Forms
Toward the Living Wage
CHAPTER 6: The Stop Watch and The Wooden Shoe
Taylor and the “Art of Sweating” (1)
The I.W.W. Turns to Guerilla Warfare
CHAPTER 7: The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community
The Origins of the Capitalist Family
The Exploitation of the Wageless
Surplus Value and the Social Factory
The Productivity of Wage Slavery Based on Unwaged Slavery
A New Compass for Class Struggle
The Refusal of Work
CHAPTER 8: Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure
Introduction
Ladies of Labor:
CHAPTER 9: Three Strikes That Paved the Way
CHAPTER 10: Jukebox Blowin’ a Fuse
Images of Work and Resistance in Rock ’n’ Roll
CHAPTER 11: Labor’s Time
Introduction
CHAPTER 12: The Unmaking of the English Working Class
Deindustrialization, Working‐Class Masculinity, and the Origins of Heavy Metal
Reification and Class Consciousness in Heavy Metal
Conclusion: Hell Awaits
CHAPTER 13: The Jobless Future
Introduction
The Need to Reduce Working Hours
CHAPTER 14: Shiftless of the World Unite!
CHAPTER 15: Occupy the Hammock
The Return of the Repressed in New Working‐Class Organizing Efforts
Discourse and Ideology in the Minimum‐Wage Debates
The Figure of the Slacker and the Cultural Dimension of the Minimum‐Wage Debate
Conclusion
PART TWO: The Middle Class
CHAPTER 16: The Vanishing Middle
What Is the Middle Class?
A Class Without Events
The Routinization of the Intellect
Back to the Future
CHAPTER 17: The Struggle Over the Saloon
Introduction
The Rise of The Saloon
The Struggle Over the Saloon, 1870–1910
CHAPTER 18: The Salaried Masses
Selection
Short Break for Ventilation
Among Neighbours
Shelter for the Homeless
CHAPTER 19: The Twilight of the Middle Class
Introduction
Chapter One
CHAPTER 20: The Rise of Professionalism
The Rise of Corporate Capitalism and the Consolidation of Professionalism
CHAPTER 21: The New Working Class
The Differentiations Within the Working Class
For a Marxist Sociology of Work
Does Technological Alienation Exist?
Is the New Working Class Revolutionary?
CHAPTER 22: How the University Works
The Rhetoric of “Job Market” and the Reality of the Academic Labor System
Job‐Market Theory as Second‐Wave Knowledge
Works Cited
CHAPTER 23: The Mental Labor Problem
The Cost of Idle Curiosity
A Great Divide
The Cultural Discount
The Cost Disease
New Model Workers
Artists Cannot Afford to Be Rewarded Well?
The Service Ideal
A Volunteer Low‐Wage Army?
Education Enterpreneurs
Second Thoughts
CHAPTER 24: Neoliberalism, Debt and Class Power
Introduction: Debt, Crisis and Everyday Life
Mortgage and Student Debt: From the 1950s through 2009
Mortgage Debt, Neoliberalism and Accumulation by Dispossession
From Wage Discipline to Debt Control: Neoliberalism and Finance Capital
Mortgage and Student Debt: Producing and Regulating Indebtedness
Conclusion: The Society of Control is a Society in Debt,which is the Neoliberal Utopia
Bibliography
PART THREE: The Capitalist Class
CHAPTER 25: The Capitalist Class
I
II
III
IV
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VI
VII
CHAPTER 26: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation
Chapter 27: The Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land
CHAPTER 27: The Monied Metropolis
Introduction
8 The Culture of Capital
9 The Rights of Labor, The Rights of Property
CHAPTER 28: Class Struggle and the New Deal
Chapter One The Capitalist State, Class Relations, and the New Deal
Chapter 2 The Process of Capitalist Development
Chapter Five The Monopoly Debate and Intracapitalist Conflict
CHAPTER 29: Scientific Management
Chapter 4 Scientific Management
Chapter 6 The Habituation of the Worker to the CapitalistMode of Production
CHAPTER 30: Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Dream
Preface
4 The Eight‐Hour Day
6 Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Dream
8 Labor Turns from Shorter Hours to Full‐Time, Full Employment
CHAPTER 31: Nixon’s Class Struggle
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II
III
VI
VIII
IX
XI
CHAPTER 32: The Global Reserve Army of Labor and the New Imperialism
Global Labor Arbitrage
The Global Reserve Army
The New Imperialism
CHAPTER 33: The End of Retirement
Whither Retirement?
The Erosion of the U.S. Retirement Security System
Explaining the Shift from Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution Plans
The Implications for Workers
Pension Reform
Jobs and the Older American
CHAPTER 34: The Politics of Austerity and the Ikarian Dream
Selected Bibliography
Index
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