Everyday worlds of work and class -- Workers in the gallery : the single-class character of revolutionary politics -- The socialist labor process -- Workplace politics -- The class relationship revisited -- Workers on stage : activists in the revolution -- A second look at the labor process and...

As much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth-century world, before twentieth-century inventions transformed him into Communism's patriarch and fierce lawgiver. Gareth Stedman Jones depicts an era...