Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction / Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne -- Part 1: Class Theory -- Class and the Classical Marxist Tradition / Joseph Choonara -- Social Class and Education / Dave Hill -- Marxist Class Theory: Competition, Contingency and Intermediate Class Positions / Jonathan Pratschke -- Class Segregation / Danny Dorling -- The ‘Secret’ of the Restoration: Increased Class Exploitation / Maurizio Donato and Roberto Taddeo -- Exploitation, Oppression, and Epistemology / Holly Lewis -- Part 2: Class and Culture -- Peasants, Migrants and Self-Employed Workers: The Masks that Veil Class Affiliation in Latin America: The Argentine Case / Marina Kabat and Eduardo Sartelli -- Capitalism, Class and Collective Identity: Social Movements and Public Services in South Africa / Adrian Murray -- On Intellectuals / Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne -- The British Working Class Post-Blair Consensus: We Do Not Exist / Lisa Mckenzie -- From Class Solidarity to Cultural Solidarity: Immigration, Crises, and the Populist Right / Ferruh Yılmaz -- Recovering the Australian Working Class / Tony Moore , Mark Gibson and Catharine Lumby -- Part 4: Class and the Media -- ‘Everything Changes. Everything Stays the Same’: Documenting Continuity and Change in Working Class Lives / Anita Biressi -- Ghettos and Gated Communities in the Social Landscape of Television: Representations of Class in 1982 and 2015 / Fredrik Stiernstedt and Peter Jakobsson -- Class, Culture and Exploitation: The Case of Reality tv / Milly Williamson -- Class Warfare, the Neoliberal Man and the Political Economy of Methamphetamine in Breaking Bad / Michael Seltzer -- ‘The Thing Is I’m Actually from Bromley’: Queer/Class Intersectionality in Pride (2014) / Craig Haslop.

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Considering Class: Theory, Culture and Media in the 21st Century offers the reader international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the importance of class analysis in the 21st century. Political economists, sociologists, educationalists, ethnographers, cultural and media analysts combine to provide a multi-dimensional account of current class dynamics. The crisis consists precisely in the gap between the objective reality and efficacy of class forces shaping international politics and the relative paucity of class-consciousness at a popular level and appreciation of class as an explanatory optic at a theoretical level. This important book shows why the process of reconstructing class consciousness must also take place on the ground of cultural and subjective formation where everyday values, habits and media practices are in play. Contributors are: Anita Biressi, Joseph Choonara, Maurizio Donato, Danny Dorling, Mark Gibson, Craig Haslop, Dave Hill, Peter Jakobsson, Marina Kabat, Holly Lewis, Catherine Lumby, Lisa Mckenzie, Tony Moore, Adrian Murray, Deirdre O’Neill, Jonathan Pratschke, Michael Seltzer, Eduardo Sartelli, Fredrik Stiernstedt, Roberto Taddeo, Mike Wayne, Milly Williamson, Ferruh Yılmaz.

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