ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the issue of class and examines the relationship between the professionals and their working-class clients. It focuses on class conflicts within the corridor population. These conflicts are complex in character because they are intermixed with issues of ethnicity and race in the project and are primarily intra-class conflicts between class strata. The class position of professionals is extremely complex because professionals, as a class, stand between the dominant and the working classes. The confusion of class roles and the class advantages of the professional have often led to the charge that supposed community organizations are "staff dominated." Class conflict then penetrates the solutions to the class conflict problem and is continually renewed throughout the community planning process. The class interests of the professional-managerial class (PMC) have increasingly become tied to the perpetuation of the state. The PMC also plays an important ideological role within the structure of society.
