| Record Number |
22525 |
| ISBN |
9781922464897 (Paperback) |
| Location |
305.5 THR |
| Author |
Threadgold, Steven,(editor). |
| Title |
Class in Australia / edited by Steven Threadgold and Jessica Gerrard. [Book] |
| Published |
Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2022] |
| Collation |
viii, 270 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Content types |
text |
| Carrier type |
volume |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliogrpahical references and index. |
| Contents Note |
Part 1: Situating class analysis in Australia -- 1. Class in Australia: public debates and research directions in a settler colony -- 2. Contradictory locations of class -- 3. The great divide: property relations and the foundational dynamics of settler-colonial society -- 4. Some comments on class analysis -- Part 2: Class, labour and employment -- 5. Rethinking class through the history of professions -- 6. Advancing debate on precarious workers and class interests: evidence from warehouse workers in Australia -- 7. Workers in waiting? Work ethic, productive intensities, class and unemployment -- Part 3: Cultural formations of class -- 8. Bogan talk: what it says (and can't say) about class -- 9. Struggle street: poverty porn? -- 10. Whiteness, neoliberal feminism and social class in Australian ru-rom: Bridie's choice -- Part 4: Class and education -- 11. Schooling and class as a longitudinal and psychosocial process: revisiting the 12 to 18 project -- 12. The transforming middle: schooling markets, morality and racialisation within Australia's middle class -- Part %: Interviews -- 13. An interview with Larissa Behrendt: reflections on class in Australia -- 14. An interview with Raewyn Connell: reflections on class in Australia. |
| Summary Note |
Class in Australia interrogates the position of class as an explanatory concept and investigates the current state and future of class analysis in Australia by bringing together a range of new and original research on inequality and class. Two decades since it was claimed that class is dead, social, economic and cultural inequalities are rising. Though Australia is often described as a 'lucky country' with a strong economy, we are witness to intensifying inequality with entrenched poverty and the growth of precarious and insecure labour. The disassociation of the rusted-on Labor voter and the rise of far-right politics suggest there is an urgent need to examine the contemporary functions of class relations. Class analysis in Australia has always had a contested position. The prominence of scholarship from the UK and US has often meant class analysis in Australia has had little to say about its settler colonial history and the past and present dynamics of race and racism that are deeply embedded in social and labour relations. In the post-war turn away from Marx and subsequent embrace of Bourdieu, much sociological research on class has focused on explorations of consumption and culture. Long-standing feminist critiques of the absence of gendered labour in class analysis also pose challenges for understanding and researching class. At a time of deepening inequality, Class in Australia is a timely examination of class relations, labour exploitation, and the changing formations of work in contemporary Australian society. |
| Subject |
Economic history |
| Social conditions |
| Social conflict -- Australia |
| Settler colonialism -- Australia |
| Social stratification -- Australia |
| Working class -- Australia |
| Equality -- Australia |
| Social classes -- Australia |
| Added Name |
Threadgold, Steven, (editor). |
| Gerrard, Jessica, (editor). |
