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Peter Ranis
Peter Ranis*
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York College and Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
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The majority of the working classes are divided into various factions that display a host of views and attitudes. As E. P. Thompson has portrayed the concept of class, it is at best not a permanent structure or category but something that emerges from time to time when workers band together for one reason or another. The complexity of this phenomenon has been compounded by the growth of various sectors of the working class, adding to its heterogeneity and amorphousness. Marx himself perceived that capitalism had “converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science into its paid wage labourers.”

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Research Reports and Notes
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , 1991, pp. 133 - 156
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Copyright © 1991 by the University of Texas Press

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Research for this note was made possible by a Fulbright Senior Research Grant and three PSC/CUNY awards. My appreciation also goes to the Instituto Torcuato Di Telia of Buenos Aires for making its facilities available to me in July and August 1987. I also wish to thank FLACSO graduate student Olga Ventura for her help in compiling the survey data and Professor Anne Rothstein of Lehman College, CUNY, for computer programming assistance. I am grateful to Gil Merkx, Sharon Kellum, and the anonymous LAR readers for their helpful comments.

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