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Changes in the class structure and in class consciousness are setting the stage for new class alliances for democratic socialism.
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  • Publication Date: 07 September 2023
  • ISBN: 9781773636405
  • Pages: 368
  • Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
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Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism is a pathbreaking study of the changing class makeup of the Canadian, other G7 and Nordic labour forces since the 1980s, documenting especially the rise of non-managerial professional employees. The book provides unprecedented tracking of the links between employment classes and higher levels of class consciousness, including the often hidden political consciousness of corporate capitalists as well as the extent of oppositional and revolutionary consciousness among non-managerial workers. The large differences exposed between class conscious capitalists and these non-managerial workers on issues of poverty reduction and global warming reveal the strategic roles these key class agents play in actions to defend or transform advanced capitalism. The most concerted evidence-based study to bring class back into grasping the intimately linked ecological, economic and political crises we now face.

Additional research tools and databases available at: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/CanadaWorkLearningSurveys1998-2016

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Price: $32.00
Pages: 368
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Publication Date: 07 September 2023
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781773636405
Format: Paperback
“Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism is an important book, not just for empirical social science but also for social movements. It provides a mass of new information and ideas about key issues in class analysis. It offers new perspectives on large-scale social and economic change, and the forces that might produce change. It recognizes that we are living in distinctive times, that demand new thinking. It sees the self-destructive dynamic in our present social and economic order. And it is, at base, optimistic, showing real potentials for fundamental change. We are not trapped in the current swamp — there are ways of digging ourselves out. If we have the courage to try.”
— Raewyn Connell, professor emerita, University of Sydney, and author of The Good University and Knowledge and Global Power
D.W. Livingstone is Professor Emeritus and past Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work at OISE/ University of Toronto. His most relevant prior books include Professional Power and Skill Use in the “Knowledge Economy”: A Class Analysis (2021); The Education–Jobs Gap (1998); and Class, Ideologies and Educational Futures (1983/2012).

: Introduction
: Studying Classes in Advanced Capitalism: Standpoint, Framework and Method of Inquiry
: Popular Notions of Classes Today
: Advanced Capitalist Mode of Production: Drivers of Class Relations in “Knowledge Economies”
: The Changing Class Structure of Production Relations in the “Knowledge Economy”
: Advanced Capitalist Mode of Thought: Bourgeois Ideology
: Class Consciousness in Advanced Capitalism: General Forms and Recent Trends
: Connecting Class and Class Consciousness: The Acid Test
: Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism: This Time Is Different