ABSTRACT
In October 1970 Bauman was offered the post of Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds and succeeded Grebby Eugene Grebenik who left to take up a post at the new Civil Service College. Bauman's appointment can also be seen as part of a broader trend within the development of sociology as a discipline in Higher Education. The city of Leeds was also experiencing rapid social change when Bauman arrived in 1971. During the 1970s Bauman continued to explore and revise Marxian analysis. In the 1970s ailing capitalist economies developed forms of corporatism to manage the economy and society. Bauman's approach to the process of class formation in the nineteenth century draws upon Foucault's conception of disciplinary technology. By the early 1990s Bauman had come to accept the postmodernist consensus that modernity was constituted as a violent, exhausted and monolithic enlightenment project.
