American exceptionalism -- Blaming the victim: psychological reductionism in class theory -- Class divisions and status rankings: the social psychology of American stratification -- Who is working class? -- Class images -- The decline of social class? -- U.S. and British workers: same consciousness, different opportunities -- Docile women? Pin money, homemaking, and class conflict -- Fear and loathing? Ethnic hostility and working-class consciousness -- Militant Blacks? The persistent significance of class -- The American dream -- Reversing the focus: capitalist strength and working-class consciousness