Social contracts under stress : the middle classes of America, Europe, and Japan at the turn of the century / edited by Olivier Zunz, Leonard Schoppa, and Nobuhiro Hiwatari.
| Other author | Zunz, Olivier. |
| Other author | Schoppa, Leonard J. (Leonard James), 1962- |
| Other author | Hiwatari, Nobuhiro, 1955- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2002. |
| Description | xii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | From divergence to convergence: the divided German middle class, 1945 to 2000 / Hannes Siegrist -- Individuality and class: the rise and fall of the gentlemanly social contract in Britain / Mike Savage -- The middle classes in France: social and political functions of semantic pluralism from 1870 to 2000 / Christophe Charle -- Could postwar France become a middle-class society? / Patrick Fridenson -- The short happy life of the Japanese middle class / Andrew Gordon -- Inflation: "the permanent dilemma" of the American middle classes / Meg Jacobs -- Public policy and the middle-class racial divide after the Second World War / Ira Katznelson -- The American middle class and the politics of education / Margaret Weir -- Changing gender and family models: their impact on the social contract in European welfare states / Chiara Saraceno -- At the limits of new middle-class Japan: beyond "mainstream consciousness" / William W. Kelly -- Twelve million full-time housewives: the gender consequences of Japan's postwar social contract / Mari Osawa -- Disinflationary adjustment: the link between economic globalization and challenges to postwar social contracts / Nobuhiro Hiwatari -- Globalization and the squeeze on the middle class: does any version of the postwar social contract meet the challenge? / Leonard Schoppa -- Europeanization of social policy: a reopening of the social contract? / Bo Öhngren -- Europe from division to reunification: the eastern European middle classes during and after socialism / Maurice Aymard -- Upsetting models: an Italian tale of the middle classes / Arnaldo Bagnasco -- Statistical appendix: Income inequality in seven nations- France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States / Derek Hoff. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-420) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001055714 |
| ISBN | 0871549972 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HT690.E73 S63 2002 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |