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The Hidden Injuries of Class

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Hidden Injuries of Class
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Richard Sennett
By (author) Jonathan Cobb
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreBritish and Irish History
ISBN/Barcode 9781839767951
ClassificationsDewey:305.50973
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Verso Books
Imprint Verso Books
NZ Release Date 2 May 2023
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In this reissue of the 1972 classic of social anatomy, Richard Sennets adds a new introduction to shows how the injuries of class persist into the 21st century. In this intrepid, groundbreaking book, Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb uncover and define a new form of class conflict in America?an internal conflict in the heart and mind of the blue-collar worker who measures his own value against those lives and occupations to which our society gives a special premium.The authors conclude that in the games of hierarchical respect, no class can emerge the victor; and that true egalitarianism can be achieved only by rediscovering diverse concepts of human dignity. Examining personal feelings in terms of a totality of human relations, and looking beyond the struggle for economic survival, The Hidden Injuries of Class takes an important step forward in the sociological critique of everyday life.

Author Biography

Richard Sennett's first book was The Uses of Disorder in 1970. His other books include The Fall of Public Man, Flesh and Stone and Respect, as well as the recent Homo Faber trilogy: The Craftsman; Together; Building and Dwelling. He currently serves as Senior Advisor to the United Nations on its Program on Climate Change and Cities. He is Senior Fellow at the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at MIT. Among other awards, he has received the Hegel Prize, the Spinoza Prize, an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University, and the Centennial Medal from Harvard University Jonathan Cobb was a former associate of the Center for the Study of Public Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Reviews

Their work is subtle, refined and sympathetic. It is an excellent example of social-science work in which the authors do not pretend impartiality but state their values and allow their readers to learn from their findings and argue with their conclusions. * The New Yorker * Among the many recent studies of working class life...this stands out both for its compassion and its willingness to venture into subjective psychic realities painfully difficult to articulate and impossible to quantify. * Kirkus Review * The book is an exercise in secular prophecy, frequently involuted, sometimes contradictory, and often brilliant * New York Times * They are strongly marked by a personal style of thought which delights in para- dox and digs into the mind of the American worker in the manner of a Shakespearian critic analyzing the character of Hamlet * Political Science Quarterly *