Erik Olin Wright has been working on his class analysis for quite some time. I guess, I am somewhat damaged with my European background, but actually his approach reminds me a lot of Bourdieu and his habitus. Maybe you can help me to understand the theoretic background of Olin Wright.
The class approach proposed by Wright the classes allows an empirical approach through the notion of the three types of control that determine the class position:
- Control over the means of production
- Control over the work process
- Control over the work of others
In particular, it is possible to reconstruct a class structure based on these three dimensions through household surveys.
Our approach can be found in the Argentine case:
Féliz, M.; López, E. y Fernández, L. (2012). “Estructura de clase, distribución del ingreso y políticas públicas. Una aproximación al caso argentino en la etapa post-neoliberal”, Más allá del individuo. Buenos Aires: El Colectivo.
Catherine, I really don't understand what you mean with your comment of "cut and paste". The article I suggest was written by me with other investigators (one of them is my Director) where we DO our own analysis of the class structure for the Argentinian case.
Wright is an analytical Marxist. More recent class analysis has a more Durkheimian perspective on things. David Grusky and Jan Jonsson and their brilliant article on micro class reproduction come to mind.
This might help you with Wright's theoretical framework: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Published%20writing/Class-Counts-chapter-1.pdf
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