From exploitation to resistance and revolt: the working class (original) (raw)

Class analysis and the significance of class struggles are contested. In a great deal of economic and social debate and analysis the people who create wealth, in particular, are not even mentioned. At best they appear as the middle class, ‘who live between the rich and the poor’, and whose existence ‘is as much an outlook as a demographic category’. The invisibility of the working class in public discussion makes it harder for workers to develop a consciousness of their collective interests and capacity to act on them.