>Question: > >What are the classic/standard references on the question >"What are workers' interests"? (That is, beyond work >of Lukacs, Gramsci, Poulantzas) Is there any good recent >discussion of this question? > >Thanks. >Eric Revolutionary workers are most interested in the abolition of wage labor or, to put it as Marx did in the German Ideology, the self-abolition of the proletariat; that answer you will get in Moishe Postone's Time, Labor and Social Domination:a reinterpretation of Marx's critical theory. The recent discussion is at the end of the list. But some of the older stuff is really not to be missed. Max Adler, 1933. "Metamorphasis of the Working Class?" In Austro Marxism, ed. Tom Bottomore (1978) Paul Crosser, 1941. Ideologies and American Labor Henryk Frankel, 1970. Capitalist Society and Modern Sociology Paul Mattick, 1983. Marxism: last refuge of the bourgeoisie? Roy Eyerman, 1981. False Consciousness and Ideology in Marxist Theory Guglielmo Carchedi, 1987. Class Analysis and Social Research Rosemary Crompton, 1993. Class and Stratification: An Introduction to Contemporary Debates Stephen Perkins, 1993. Marxism and the Proletariat: A Lukascian Perspective Stanley Aronowitz, 1995. The Jobless Future John F. Sitton, 1996. Recent Marxian Theory: Class Formation and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism. Rakesh Ethnic Studies
