Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Classical Perspectives on Social Class; 1 Manifesto of the Communist Party Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; 2 On Classes Karl Marx; 3 Class, Status, Party Max Weber; Related Readings; Part II: American Stratification Theory; 4 What Social Class Is in America W. Lloyd Warner, Marchia Meeker, and Kenneth Eells; 5 Some Principles of Stratification Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore; 6 Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis Melvin M. Tumin; Related Readings.

Part III: Neo-Marxian and Neo-Weberian Perspectives on Social Class7 Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique Frank Parkin; 8 Class Analysis Erik Olin Wright; Related Readings; Part IV: Non-Class Forms of Inequality: Statements on Gender and Racial Stratification; 9 Women and Social Stratification: A Case of Intellectual Sexism Joan Acker; 10 Capitalism, Patriarchy, and the Subordination of Women Heidi Hartmann; 11 Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thomton Dill; 12 Double-Consciousness and the Veil W.E.B. Du Bois; 13 Race and Class Oliver Cox.

14 The Declining Significance of Race: From Racial Oppression to Economic Class Subordination William Julius Wilson15 Racial Formation Michael Omi and Howard Winant; 16 Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection Patricia Hill Collins; Related Readings; Conclusion; Index; About the Editor.