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ID2747285
AutoresPeter Ranis (0000-0002-8191-9865, The Graduate Center, CUNY, autor de correspondencia)
Año1991
Volumen26
Número2
Páginas133-156
Fecha de publicación1991-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLatin American Research Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0023879100023785
OpenAlexW4313191308
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas18

The majority of the working classes are divided into various factions that display a host of views and attitudes. As E. P. Thompson has portrayed the concept of class, it is at best not a permanent structure or category but something that emerges from time to time when workers band together for one reason or another. The complexity of this phenomenon has been compounded by the growth of various sectors of the working class, adding to its heterogeneity and amorphousness. Marx himself perceived that capitalism had "converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science into its paid wage labourers

Aesthetics · Capitalism · Class (philosophy) · Economics · Epistemology · Labour economics · Neoclassical economics · Phenomenon · Political science · Positive economics · Sociology · Wage · Working class · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Philosophy