Preface / Leo Panitch, Greg Albo, Vivek Chibber -- The Walmart working class / Arun Gupta -- Reconsiderations of class: precariousness as proletarianization / Bryan Palmer -- Capitalism, class and universalism: escaping the cul-de-sac / Vivek Chibber -- The underpinning of class in the digital age: living, labour and value / Ursula Huws -- The British ruling class / Colin Leys -- The new configuration of the capitalist class / Claude Serfati -- Whither the transnational capitalist class? / William K. Carroll -- The European capitalist class and the crisis of its hegemonic project / Bastiaan van Apeldoorn -- Brazil's new imperial capitalism / Virginia Fontes Ana Garcia -- Mass protests: Brazilian spring or Brazilian malaise? / Alfredo Saad-Filho Lecio Morais -- Beyond the labour of Sisyphus: unions and the city / Ian MacDonald -- Left unity or class unity? Working-class politics in Britain / Andrew Murray -- Rethinking class: the lineage of the Socialist Register / Madeline Davis -- Registering class and politics: fifty years of the Socialist Register / Leo Panitch.