NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS:
Class Matters
Inequality and Exploitation in 21st Century Britain
By Charles Umney
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‘A sophisticated answer to impoverished sociologies and cheap media cliches … A sharp and deeply necessary book’ – Richard Seymour, author of ‘Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics’ (Verso, 2017).
‘Umney presents a powerful and nuanced alternative narrative driven by Marxist political economy. With a keen eye for irony, paradox, and the absurd, he analyses work, politics, and technology in capitalist societies. Class Matters is a witty and wise antidote to the mainstream diagnoses of our times’ – Professor Ian Greer, Cornell University
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About the book:
Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven into the very fabric of social and political discourse, undiminished by the end of mass industry; unaugmented despite the ascendancy of ‘ordinary working people’ and other substitute phrases. Absent from this landscape, however, is any compelling Marxist expression or analysis of class.
In ‘Class Matters’, Charles Umney brings Marxist analysis out of the 19th century textiles mill, and into the call centres, office blocks and fast food chains of modern Britain. He shows how core Marxist concepts are vital to understanding increasing pay inequality, decreasing job security, increasing routinisation and managerial control of the labour process.
Providing a critical analysis of competing perspectives, Umney argues that class must be understood as a dynamic and exploitative process integral to capitalism – rather than a descriptive categorisation – in order for us to better understand the gains capital has made at the expense of labour over the last four decades.
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Charles Umney is a Lecturer at the University of Leeds. He teaches, researches and writes on the subjects of trade unionism, working conditions and employment policy across Europe, and has also published extensively on the topic of working life in live music.
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PAPERBACK: MAY 2018 / 224 PAGES / ISBN 9780745337081 / £18.99
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