Vampires, grave-diggers, and the new petty bourgeoisie

Margaret Thatcher regarded it as a ‘communist concept’, but class has returned to the public agenda with both media interest and academic inquiry. Evans brings a new take to an old debate about the boundary between the petty bourgeoisie and the working class and its implications for theory and practice. This review examines his argument that the petty bourgeoisie is bigger and more important than generally understood and has a key role to play in the likelihood of radical social change.