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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Sociologies of Class and Organization -- I. Classes, Structures and Actors -- Classes in Contemporary Capitalist Society: Recent Marxist and Weberian Perspectives -- Analytical Marxism and Class Theory -- Between Rational Choice and Durkheimian Solidarity -- "New" Social Inequalities and the Renewal of the Theory of Social Inequalities -- Classes, Collectivities and Corporate Actors -- II. Management in Class and Organization Structures -- Ownership and Management Strategy -- International Management and the Class Structure -- Managers and Social Classes -- Technical Workers: A Class and Organisational Analysis -- III. Class Restructuring and Organizations -- Disorganised Capitalism and Social Class -- Managing the Multinationals: The Emerging Theory of the Multinational Enterprise and Its Implications for Labour Resistance -- Work Organization Under Technological Change: Sources of Differentiation and the Reproduction of Social Inequality in Processes of Change -- The New Rise of Self-Employment and Industrial Structure -- IV. The Labour Process, Class Structure and Gender -- Exploring the Class and Organisational Implications of the UK Financial Services -- Organization and Class: Burawoy in Birmingham -- The Class/Gender/Organization Nexus -- Masculine/Feminine Organization: Class versus Gender in Swedish Unions -- V. Classless Organizations? -- Between Class Analysis and Organization Theory: Mental Labour -- Against the Current: Organizational Sociology and Socialism -- Political Domination and Reproduction of Classless Organizations -- Socialised Industry: Social Ownership or Shareholding Democracy? -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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