books about class

[Michael McIntyre]

In addition to all the books on class that have been mentioned, most centering on the U.S., a few on the U.K., let's not forget the absolutely superb work on class in Chile: Maurice Zeitlin & Richard Ratcliff, Landlords and Capitalists: The Dominant Class of Chile (Princeton Univ. Press, 1988).  As a fine-grained work on intra-class relations, it has no peer.  This is what a historic bloc looks like.

And besides, Ratcliff is a mensch.  One of many casualties during Washington University's campaign to destroy its sociology department, he had the nerve to turn his guns on Wash U's board of trustees - the executive committee of the St. Louis bourgeoisie if ever there was one.