Rethinking Class and Social Difference

Barry Eidlin is Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University, Canada. He is the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (2018) and has published research in many esteemed journals, including the American Sociological Review, Politics & Society, Labor Studies Journal and Sociology Compass, amongst others. He has also written for broader audiences in various media outlets such as the Washington Post and Jacobin Magazine. Michael A. McCarthy is Associate Professor of Sociology at Marquette University, USA. His book, Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal (2017) was awarded the Paul Sweezy Book Award by the American Sociological Association. His research has been published at Annual Review of Sociology, Critical Historical Studies, Labor Studies Journal, Socio-Economic Review, and Work & Occupations. He is also a regular contributor at Jacobin Magazine.

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Barry Eidlin, and Michael McCarthy Chapter 2. Caught in the Countryside: Race, Class, and Punishment in Rural America; Marie Gottschalk Chapter 3. Is the National Front Republican and Does it Matter? Class, Culture, and the Rise of the Nationalist Right; Mathieu Hikaru Desan Chapter 4. The Great Equalizer Reproduces Inequality: How the Digital Divide is a Class Power Divide; Jen Schradie Chapter 5. Unraveling the Middle Classes in Post-revolutionary Iran; Kevan Harris Chapter 6. Just Work: Sex Work at the Intersections; Gowri Vijaykumar Chapter 7. Applying the Black Radical Tradition: Class, Race, and a New Foundation for Studies of Development; Zophia Edwards Chapter 8. Of Home and Whom: Embeddedness of Law in the Regulation of Difference; Katherine Eva Maich