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Understanding Class keyword-accumulation The essays in Distant ReadingFew ideas are more contested today than class. Some have declared its death, while others insist on its centrality to contemporary capitalism. It is said its relevance is limited to explaining individuals economic conditions and opportunities, while at the same time argued that it is a structural feature of macro power relations. In Understanding Class, leading left sociologist Erik Olin Wright interrogates the divergent meanings of this fundamental