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        6485626_Auer_RMA Thesis

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        2024
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        Auer, Ethan
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        Despite fewer and fewer workers identifying as working class, class inequalities remain. While current working-class consciousness is low, it is argued that class analysis is productive and that an increase in working-class awareness is desirable. In this thesis, I present an original account that argues that recognition theory can play a key role in facilitating and strengthening working-class solidarity. Methodologically this project is of a conceptual and normative nature. This thesis consists of three main chapters. Chapter 1 presents a conceptualization of the working class that is based on materialist and cultural understandings while exploring the tension between the two. Chapter 2 provides an elaborate account of Axel Honneth's theory of recognition while simultaneously presenting some key critiques of his approach by Nancy Fraser, among others. Chapter 3 is dedicated to working-class solidarity. It presents Nathan DuFord's account of solidarity as the starting point and continues by proposing additions to his framework. Subsequently, I show that recognition theory can function as a conflict mediator for working-class solidarity groups.
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