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Illuminating one of the most pervasive issues of our time, "Popular Culture" is the first book to link the importance and implications of popular culture with pedagogical practice. It shows how cultural forms such as Hollywood films, pop music, soap operas, and televangelism are organized by gender, age, class, race, and ethnicity, thus providing the contradictory text that both enables and disables emancipatory interest, so fundamental to the formation of self and society. What emerges is a redefinition of the very notion of popular culture.

Using an innovative framework, this reader examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations.

• Uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines scholarship from political economy, social history, and cultural studies
• Brings together more than 50 selections rich in theory and empirical detail that span the working, middle, and capitalist classes
• Analyzes class within the larger context of labor, particularly as it relates to conflicts over and about work
• Provides insight into the current crisis in the global capitalist...

Cultural differences are not asserted through the specificity of dominant notions of race, gender, and class, but through a commitment to expanding dialogue and exchange across cultural lines as part of a wider attempt to deepen and develop democratic public life. This revised edition of the 1985 best-seller speaks eloquently to the need to attend to ever-present inequalities of education in the light of new political correctness, technology, and curricula.

Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he explains how this death has been a long time coming--the organizing and political principles adopted by US unions at mid-century have taken a terrible toll. In the 1950s, Aronowitz was a factory...