Publisher's Synopsis
This new edition of Tom Bottomore's text has been revised, updated and substantially enlarged. The book offers an introduction to the study of social class in modern societies.;Features new to this edition are that it examines the profound economic and social changes that have taken place in the major industrial countries since the 1950s; that it takes into account the dramatic upheavals in Eastern Europe with the failure of totalitarian socialism; that it analyzes the impact of these changes on class structure and class relations, considering their cultural and political implications in relation to the growth of new social movements; and that it discusses the various theories of class and the revisions of them that have been undertaken in recent times.
