Publisher's Synopsis
This new edition of Tom Bottomore's text is fully revised, updated and substantially enlarged. The book provides a concise and lucid introduction to the study of social class in modern societies. Features new to this edition include an examination of profound economic and social changes that have taken place in the major industrial countries, since the 1950s. The book takes into account the dramatic upheaval in Eastern Europe with the failure of totalitarian socialism, 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. It also discusses the various theories of class and the revisions of them that have been undertaken in recent times.
