Reimagining Class in Australia

Offers a new critique and appraisal of the successes and failures of Marxist class analysis of Australia during the 1980s

Considers how contemporary Australian society can be understood from a historical perspective as shaped by class analysis

Engages with works by Raewyn Connell and Terence Irving, Andrew Wells, and Andrew Metcalfe

Autorentext
Henry Paternoster is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Chapter 1:Imagining class in Australian history.- Chapter 2: The New Left and Marxism.- Chapter 3: Connell and Irving's Class Structure in Australian History.- Chapter 4: Andrew Wells' Constructing Capitalism and political economy.- Chapter 5: Andrew Metcalfe and working class consciousness.- Chapter 6:The Death of Class and its afterlife.- Conclusion: Reimagining Class.