Reconceptualizing the Global Working-Class

Authors

David Baronov, St. John Fisher UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

8-19-2003

Abstract

This essay attempts to engage the category of the modern working-class and attempts to examine the theoretical/historical bases for its exclusive identification with the wage-labor form. As such, this essay traces the evolution of the category of labor as first conceptualized by 19th-century political economy (Smith, Ricardo, Marx). It then attempts to reconcile non-wage-labor forms (slave-labor) with a concept of the working-class in an effort to re-conceptualize the working-class as a category of social analysis better able to capture the complexities of marginalized labor forms.

Comments

Presented at the Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association in Atlanta, Georgia, August 19, 2003

Publication Information

Baronov, David, "Reconceptualizing the Global Working-Class" (2003). Sociology Faculty/Staff Publications. Paper 28.
https://fisherpub.sjf.edu/sociology_facpub/28

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