This accessible introductory text offers an engaging and thought-provoking discussion of class in relation to several cultural, sociological and political schools of thought and draws upon the works of a broad range of key theorists as well as contemporary thinkers to restate the ongoing importance of class as a sociological concept.

Nick Stevenson is Reader in Cultural Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. His intellectual interests are mainly located in the fields of class, capitalism, ecology, citizenship, education and popular media. He is the author of several books, including Freedom (Routledge, 2012) and Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom (Routledge, 2016), as well as numerous chapters and journal articles.

1. Class as a Key Sociological Concept 2. Class Struggles 3. Class, Human Needs and Morality 4. Class Politics 5. Class and the Commons 6. Class, Work and the Labour Movement 7. Concluding Thoughts