ISBN:
9780300240825
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (224 pages)
DDC:
305.50944
Keywords:
HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century
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Social classes History 21st century
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Social stratification History 21st century
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Working class History 21st century
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Soziale Ungleichheit
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Klassenbewusstsein
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Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung
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Offene Gesellschaft
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Soziale Schichtung
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Sozialpolitik
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Globalisierung
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Regionale Disparität
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Frankreich
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Frankreich
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Soziale Schichtung
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Klassenbewusstsein
;
Sozialpolitik
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Offene Gesellschaft
;
Frankreich
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Globalisierung
;
Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung
;
Regionale Disparität
;
Soziale Ungleichheit
Abstract:
A passionate account of how the gulf between France's metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society"-one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France has replaced the old left-right split, leaving many on "the periphery." As Guilluy shows, there is no unified French economy, and those cut off from the country's new economic citadels suffer disproportionately on both economic and social fronts. In Guilluy's analysis, the lip service paid to the idea of an "open society" has emerged in France as a smoke screen meant to hide the emergence of a closed society, walled off for the benefit of the upper classes. The ruling classes in France are reaching a dangerous stage, he argues; without the stability of a growing economy, the hope for those excluded from growth is extinguished, undermining the legitimacy of a multicultural nation
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)
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In English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300240825
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