After the box people: the labor-capital relation as class constitution and its consequences for Marxist educational theory and human resistance

Abstract

For those interested in exploring relations between education and social class from a Marxist perspective, or, more accurately examining education as an aspect of ‘class’, these are interesting times. First, as Simon Clarke (1999) notes, we witness the virtual abandonment of the notion of the working class – not just by erstwhile postmodernists, but also by mainstream social scientists. Most people who analyse social class today do no such thing; rather, they have social inequality and stratification in view. Social class itself is evaded and avoided. This bad seed at the heart of capitalist society, indeed its existence at capital’s structural core, is covered in mounds of obfuscation even though ‘we live it ... It is part of our lives, all around us’, as Dave Hill extemporises (Hill, in Cole et al, 2001, p.19).

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