ABSTRACT
Suggestions of class analysis in crisis and pronouncements of the death of class are hardly new. Veteran class analysts must have heard the statement that class analysis has reached its impasse on many occasions. 1 And yet, class analysis is still alive. 2 In fact, largely an outcome of the recognition that globalization is a ‘false dawn’ (Gray 1998) and, contrary to what it has promised, it has in fact brought about uneven development and growing inequalities, between and within both developed and developing economies, class analysis (albeit taking a different form and placed in the context of a new agenda) is again in fashion. It has become a major issue of social concern in post-reform socialist countries and is once again a topic of discussion, as growing social inequalities and social polarization reach alarming rates in the cities of developed economies. Earlier farewells to class seem to be premature.
