Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes

Our lives are shaped to an enormous extent, and often in unperceived ways, by large multinational corporations. How are the growth, power, and significance of these big businesses to be explained and understood? Focusing on issues of ownership, control, and class formation, Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes explores the implications of these changes in the nature of big business

Our lives are shaped to an enormous extent, and often in unperceived ways, by large multinational corporations. How are the growth, power, and significance of these big businesses to be explained and understood? Focusing on issues of ownership, control, and class formation, Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes explores the implications of these changes in the nature of big business

John Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. He is the editor of the Oxford Modern Britain series and has written several books. His recent titles include Stratification and Power: Structures of Class, Status, and Domination (1996) and Who Rules Britain? (1991).