Corporations Classes And Capitalism

Author : John Scott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997-02-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191588839

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Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes by John Scott Pdf

Large multinational corporations shape our lives to an enormous extent. How is the growth, power, and significance of big business to be explained and understood? Focusing on the issues of ownership, control, and class formation, Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes explores the implications of changes in the nature of big business, which affect both the businesses themselves, and the economic and political milieu in which these multinationals operate. Up-to-date empirical evidence is reviewed in a wide-ranging comparative framework that covers Britain and the United States, Germany, France, Japan, and many other societies, including emerging forms of capitalism in China and Russia. Unlike other specialist texts in the area, Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes relates its concerns to issues of social stratification and class structure. The first and second editions of the book (under the title Corportations, Classes and Capitalism) were enthusiastically received, and the present edition reviews new theoretical ideas and empirical evidence that has emerged in the ten years since the second edition appeared. The text has been completely re-written and re-structured, and it relates its concerns to contemporary debates over `disorganized capitalism' and post-industrialism.

Author : John Scott
Publisher : London : Hutchinson
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035595904

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Corporations, Classes, and Capitalism by John Scott Pdf

Author : John McDermott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429718595

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Corporate Society by John McDermott Pdf

The modem corporation, praised and condemned by thinkers from Weber to Bell and Dahrendorf, is the institution of modern society. Its enormous success has made it our premier social, as well as economic, institution, and modern society is increasingly coming to reflect the social structure, values, priorities, and hierarchies that have evolved within the corporation. So argues John McDermott in Corporate Society, an original and far-reaching analysis of the impact of the modern corporation on contemporary social structure. Combining business history with political insight, McDermott offers a systematic critique of the post-industrial order and the illusions it fosters. He warns against the development of a "post-society industry" in which the corporate order replaces democratic institutions as the primary organizer of social and cultural life, and he argues that the corporation harbors a set of explosive socioeconomic contradictions. The need to confront the challenges of this new order, with its potential for a uniquely modern class conflict, makes Corporate Society a crucial work for teachers and students alike.

Author : Richard Wolff
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608462575

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Democracy at Work by Richard Wolff Pdf

What, and who, are we working for? A thoughtful assessment on our current society from “probably America’s most prominent Marxist economist” (The New York Times). Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve. One key cause for this intolerable state of affairs is the lack of genuine democracy in our economy as well as in our politics. The solution requires the institution of genuine economic democracy, starting with workers managing their own workplaces, as the basis for a genuine political democracy. Here Richard D. Wolff lays out a hopeful and concrete vision of how to make that possible, addressing the many people who have concluded economic inequality and politics as usual can no longer be tolerated and are looking for a concrete program of action. “Wolff’s constructive and innovative ideas suggest new and promising foundations for much more authentic democracy and sustainable and equitable development, ideas that can be implemented directly and carried forward. A very valuable contribution in troubled times.” —Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hope and Prospects

Author : Maurice Zeitlin,Richard Earl Ratcliff
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400859535

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Landlords and Capitalists by Maurice Zeitlin,Richard Earl Ratcliff Pdf

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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Bob Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317652168

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Capitalism, Class Conflict and the New Middle Class (RLE Social Theory) by Bob Carter Pdf

Non-manual workers are fast becoming the largest occupational category in Western capitalist countries. This is the first book to present a detailed socialist analysis of this much discussed change in the class structure of contemporary capitalism. Focusing on the class position of managerial and supervisory workers, Robert Carter takes as his starting-point the inadequacy of both orthodox Marxist and Weberian models of class relations. Rather, he concurs with recent structuralist theorists of class who maintain that there exists between capital and labour in the process of producing a new middle class. He parts company from the work of these theorists, however, in his insistence that the organisation and consciousness of the new middle class have also to be examined because of the practical consequences these have on class relations. The book therefore examines the historical rise of the middle class, both in the private and the state sector, together with the tendency of the class to respond to its changing relations with capital and labour by unionising. It is sharply critical of the dominant models of the causes and nature of white-collar unionism – both industrial relations and Weberian ones – and indeed rejects these models in favour of a perspective which views the extent and nature of middle-class unionism within the dynamics of class relations.

Author : H. J. Glasbeek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1771133090

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Class Privilege by H. J. Glasbeek Pdf

"Capitalism's agenda is the endless pursuit of private accumulation of socially produced wealth. In this system, the corporation is created by law; the corporation is meant to hide, to distract so that flesh and blood capitalists can do what they like. When the workings of the corporation are examined, they reveal a betrayal of the very values and norms that, for their legitimacy's sake, capitalists in our parts of the world purport to share. This book sets out to highlight one of capitalism's potentially weak spots, namely, the perverting economic, political and ethical roles played by the prime instrument of private wealth accumulation; the legal corporation. Once the corporate mask is ripped-off, those who hide behind it become visible. Stripped of their protective garb, the few capitalists who own the means of production will be just as naked as the rest of us we are when we face their corporations. Class Privilege sets out to humanize capitalism and help citizens rid themselves of a seemingly inevitable system while helping activists identify their antagonists and troubleshoot viable solutions."--

Author : Graeme Salaman
Publisher : Fontana Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039172783

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Class and the Corporation by Graeme Salaman Pdf

Author : William K. Carroll
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848139145

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The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class by William K. Carroll Pdf

Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class, triggered by economic and political transformations that have blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business from national domiciles. Using social network analysis, William Carroll maps the changing field of power generated by elite relations among the world's largest corporations and related political organizations. Carroll provides an in-depth analysis that spans the three decades of the late 20th and early 21st century, when capitalist globalization attained unprecedented momentum, propelled both by the transnationalization of accumulation and by the political paradigm of transnational neoliberalism. This has been an era in which national governments have deregulated capital, international institutions such as the World Trade Organization and the World Economic Forum have gained prominence, and production and finance have become more fully transnational, increasing the structural power of capital over communities and workers. Within this context of transformation, the book charts the making of a transnational capitalist class, reaching beyond national forms of capitalist class organization into a global field, but facing spirited opposition from below in an ongoing struggle that is also a struggle over alternative global futures.

Author : Susanne Soederberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135249434

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Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism by Susanne Soederberg Pdf

This book examines neoliberal corporate power within the context of the American political economy and its relationship to emerging market economies in order to understand the global dimensions of the corporate-financial binary.

Author : Harry Glasbeek
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781771133081

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Class Privilege by Harry Glasbeek Pdf

Author : Robert J. Brym
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015011482943

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The Structure of the Canadian Capitalist Class by Robert J. Brym Pdf

Author : Peter A. Hall,David W. Soskice
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199247745

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Varieties of Capitalism by Peter A. Hall,David W. Soskice Pdf

Applying the new economics of organisation and relational theories of the firm to the problem of understanding cross-national variation in the political economy, this volume elaborates a new understanding of the institutional differences that characterise the 'varieties of capitalism' worldwide.

Author : Scase, Richard
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335156252

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Class by Scase, Richard Pdf

Of all the concepts used by sociologists for describing and explaining social relationships, social class is probably the most ambiguous, confusing and ill-defined. This is despite the fact that the development of sociology as an academic discipline has been intimately connected with class related issues. In this book, Richard Scase offers an introduction to the analysis of social class. Against a background of the failure of Soviet and East European state socialism he highlights the enduring importance of social class in Western capitalist society, which is characterized by relations of exploitation. He concludes that whilst Marxist categories continue to be invaluable, Marx's ideas for abolishing class must, towards the end of the 20th century, be seen to be utopian.

Author : Leslie Sklair
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0631224629

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The Transnational Capitalist Class by Leslie Sklair Pdf

While most of the popular and academic debates explore ideas of globalization, The Transnational Capitalist Class goes one step further and provides theoretically informed empirical research to explain and deconstruct the process of globalization as seen by the corporations themselves. Using personal interviews with executives and managers from over eighty Fortune Global 500 corporations, as well as already published sources, Sklair demonstrates how globalization works from the perspective of those who control and oppose the major globalizing corporations and their allies in government and the media. The book explores two major crises of globalization - class polarization and ecological sustainability - and shows how the transnational capitalist class attempts to resolve these crises and evaluates its own success and failure. Sklair's unique approach brings a fresh perspective to what has become a key debate of our time.