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Bryan Palmer's Canadian contemplation on working-class history as struggle offers a trenchant analysis of academic treatment of the working-class as a category and historical phenomenon over the last 30 years. His criticisms of theoretical trends and his reminder of the role that necessity and struggle play in the making of the working-class are timely in our own historic moment. However, the uneven geographical distribution of capitalist transformations generates significant variation in the actual lived experiences of different segments of the working class. Theoretical concepts and tools need to evolve to capture this complexity.
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This paper is a Forum response of Dr. Palmer’s Forum statement. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-018-9503-z
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Dunk, T. Commentary on Bryan Palmer’s “Approaching working-class history as struggle: a Canadian contemplation; a Marxist meditation”. Dialect Anthropol 42, 481–484 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-018-9527-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-018-9527-4