The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies, Volume 4

This fourth volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies finishes the series by exploring how class infuses people's past and present efforts to juggle family, work and leisure.

Will Atkinson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of Class (2nd ed, 2024), Class in the New Millennium (2017) and Bourdieu and After (2020) as well as the other volumes in the Class Structure of Capitalist Societies series: A Space of Bounded Variety (2020), Social Space and Symbolic Domination in Three Nations (2022) and Love, Lifestyles and a Multiplicity of Capitals (2024).

1. Introduction 2. The structures of everyday life 3. Constructing singular individuals Part I: The US 4. When work disturbs family and lifestyles 5. When family disturbs work and lifestyles Part II: Sweden 6. Variations on satisfaction 7. Variations on dissatisfaction Part III: Germany 8. The struggles of mothers 1: Beyond reproduction 9. The struggles of mothers 2: Mobility and necessity 10. The struggles of men Part IV: Conclusions and prospects 11. Conclusions and prospects Appendix: On existing theories of borders and balances