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In contemporary pedagogy, "class" has become one nomadic sign among others: it has no referent but only contingent allusions to similarly traveling signs. Class, that is, no longer explains social conflicts and antagonisms rooted in social divisions of labor, but instead portrays a cultural carnival of lifestyles, consumptions, tastes, prestige and desire, or obscures social conflicts through technicist accounts of incomes and jobs. Class in Education brings back class as a materialist analysis of social inequalities originating at the point of production and reproduced in all cultural...

Across a range of issues, the essays in this text argue for and demonstrate that a materialist understanding of class has the explanatory power to analyze the structure of owning and power in social relations, and therefore to point to ways to abolish exploitation of human beings and restructure society in a more egalitarian way.