John Scott 
Who Rules Britain? [PDF ebook] 

List of illustrations VII
Acknowledgements IX
Introduction 1
1 What is a Capitalist Class? 7
The Orthodox Marxist View 8
The Fabian View 16
Burnham and the Managerial Revolution 19
Post-war Revisionism 20
The Capitalist Class Reconsidered 23
2 What is a Ruling Class? 25
Marx on the British Ruling Class 26
The Orthodox Marxist View 27
An Unorthodox Marxist View 29
The Power Bloc and the State 31
3 The Making of the Ruling Class 40
The Ancien Regime in Europe 41
The Old Society in England 44
The Transition to Modernity 57
4 Is there still a Capitalist Class? 63
Who are the Capitalists? 64
The Development of the Business Class 72
Contours of the Capitalist Class 80
Class Reproduction and Capital Reproduction 90
5 Is there still an Upper Circle? 93
The ‘Traditional’ Status System 93
‘Tradition’, Social Networks and Class Reproduction 106
6 Is there still a Ruling Class? 118
Power Elites and the Ruling Class 118
The Changing Anatomy of Political Rule 124
The Structure of Political Domination 139
Notes 153
Index 165

John Scott is author of many other works on the subject of wealth and the upper class in Britain, including Sociology of Elites. He previously taught at the University of Strathclyde.