ISBN:
9780871549983
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (444 p)
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Print version Zunz, Olivier Social Contracts Under Stress : The Middle Classes of America, Europe, and Japan at the Turn of the Century: The Middle Classes of America, Europe, and Japan at the Turn of the Century
DDC:
305.5509049
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Abstract:
Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Social Contracts Under Stress / Olivier Zunz -- Part I. National Paths to Middle-Class Formation -- Chapter 1. From Divergence to Convergence: The Divided German Middle Class, 1945 to 2000 / Hannes Siegrist -- Chapter 2. Individuality and Class: The Rise and Fall of the Gentlemanly Social Contract in Britain / Mike Savage -- Chapter 3. The Middle Classes in France: Social and Political Functions of Semantic Pluralism from 1870 to 2000 / Christophe Charle
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Chapter 4. Could Postwar France Become a Middle-class Society? / Patrick Fridenson -- Chapter 5. The Short Happy Lide of the Japanese Middle Class / Andrew Gordon -- Chapter 6. Inflation: ""The Permanent Dilemma"" of the American Middle Classes / Meg Jacobs -- Part II. Constituencies in Conflict -- Chapter 7. Public Policy and the Middle-class Racial Divide After the Second World War / Ira Katznelson -- Chapter 8. The American Middle Class and the Politics of Education / Margaret Weir
Abstract:
Chapter 9. Changing Gender and Family Models: Their Impact on the Social Contract in European Welfare States / Chiara Saraceno -- Chapter 10. At the Limits of New Middle-class Japan: Beyond ""Mainstream Consciousness"" / William W. Kelly -- Chapter 11. Twelve Million Full-time Housewives: The Gender Consequences of Japan's Postwar Social Contract / Mari Osawa -- Part III. Vanishing Borders and the Social Contract -- Chapter 12. Disinflationary Adjustment: The Link Between Economic Globalization and Challenges to Postwar Social Contracts / Nobuhiro Hiwatari
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Chapter 13. Globalization and the Squeeze on the Middle Class: Does Any Version of the Postwar Social Contract Meet the Challenge? / Leonard Schoppa -- Chapter 14. Europeanization of Social Policy: A Reopening of the Social Contract? / Bo Ohngren -- Chapter 15. Europe from Division to Reunification: The Eastern European Middle Classes During and After Socialism / Maurice Aymard -- Chapter 16. Upsetting Models: An Italian Tale of the Middle Classes / Arnaldo Bagnasco
Abstract:
Statistical Appendix: Income Inequality in Seven Nations-France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States / Derek Hoff -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
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