Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Marx and the abolition of the division of labour Ali Rattansi; 2. Power, the dialectic of control and class structuration Anthony Giddens; 3. Managing the frontier of control Graeme Salaman; 4. Class boundaries and the labour process Gavin Mackenzie; 5. Control and resistance on the assembly line Ely Chinoy; 6. Fatalism: Durkheim's hidden theory of order David Lockwood; 7. Work histories, career strategies and the class structure Richard Brown; 8. Gender inequality and class formation Sheila Allen; 9. The petty bourgeoisie and modern capitalism: a consideration of recent theories Richard Scase; 10. On the service class, its formation and future John Goldthorpe; 11. The state and the professions: peculiarities of the British Terry Johnson; 12. Divisions within the dominant class and British 'exceptionalism' Geoffrey Ingham; 13. Property and control: some remarks on the British propertied class John Scott; 14. The division of labour, incomes policy and industrial democracy Paul Hirst; 15. The political role of the working class in Western Europe Tom Bottomore; Notes to the text; Bibliography; Index.