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While many anthropologists in the USA have followed the ideological lead provided by the corporate-sponsored Great Cultural Revolution and denied the salience of class in the USA and in general, we argue that contra American exceptionalism, the capitalist economic system of the USA strongly entails class structures that affect all. To deny the existence and salience of class is to participate in a corporate-sponsored delusion to the detriment of the working class.
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23 January 2018
The original version contained a mistake. Under The fall of labor heading, the correct sentence is “.. a process that continues to the time of this writing as a series of Republican state governors, attempt to obliterate public workers’ unions”. The original article has been corrected.
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The original version of this article was revised: Under The fall of labor heading, the correct sentence is “.. a process that continues to the time of this writing as a series of Republican state governors, attempt to obliterate public workers’ unions”.
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Durrenberger, P., Doukas, D. Class in the USA. Dialect Anthropol 42, 1–13 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-017-9479-0
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