{"id":5984,"date":"2024-08-23T16:23:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T20:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2024-08-23T16:23:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T20:23:52","slug":"the-power-of-capital-an-introduction-to-class-domination-and-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/2024\/08\/23\/the-power-of-capital-an-introduction-to-class-domination-and-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Capital: An Introduction to Class, Domination and Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment6243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment6243\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/eci\/files\/2024\/08\/claudio-schwarz-EGzyJk2juPo-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/eci\/files\/2024\/08\/claudio-schwarz-EGzyJk2juPo-unsplash-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/files\/2024\/08\/claudio-schwarz-EGzyJk2juPo-unsplash-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/files\/2024\/08\/claudio-schwarz-EGzyJk2juPo-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/files\/2024\/08\/claudio-schwarz-EGzyJk2juPo-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/files\/2024\/08\/claudio-schwarz-EGzyJk2juPo-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/files\/2024\/08\/claudio-schwarz-EGzyJk2juPo-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment6243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Claudio Schwarz via Unsplash.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By Alejandro Reuss<\/p>\n<p>This module presents an overview of economic class, class power and class conflict. It addresses some aspects of economic power in capitalist societies today, highlighting relations that are not considered \u201cpower relations\u201d in mainstream economics. It explores the unequal power relations between different economic classes in the workplace and the political sphere, and discusses how conflicts between classes in both workplace and political sphere can change these power relations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/files\/2020\/06\/A.-Reuss-Power-of-Capital.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Teaching Module<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alejandro Reuss This module presents an overview of economic class, class power and class conflict. It addresses some aspects of economic power in capitalist societies today, highlighting relations that are not considered \u201cpower relations\u201d in mainstream economics. It explores the unequal power relations between different economic classes in the workplace and the political sphere, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22900,"featured_media":6243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[173,168,107,158,162,170,167,329,171],"tags":[330,449,391,392,390,393,394,395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6244,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions\/6244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}