Economic restructuring and the growing uncertainty of the middle class / edited by Bram Steijn, Jan Berting, and Mart-Jan de Jong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steijn, Abraham Jan, 1959-

Berting, J.

Jong, M. J. de.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution--Europe--Congresses.

Income distribution.

Europe.

Middle class--Europe--Economic conditions--Congresses.

Middle class.

Economic conditions.

Europe--Economic policy--Congresses.

Economic policy.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 177 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1998]

Contents:

1 Rise and Fall of Middle-Class Society? How the Restructuring of Economic and Social Life Creates Uncertainty, Vulnerability, and Social Exclusion / Jan Berting 7

2 Social Exclusion and Inclusion within the British middle classes, 1980-1995 / Mike Savage 25

3 Women's employment, the household and middle-class heterogeneity / Rosemary Crompton 45

4 Social Exclusion and Increasing Uncertainty of the Middle Classes: The West German Case / Martin Kronauer 61

5 Proletarization of the Dutch Middle Class: Fact or Fiction? / Bram Steijn, Dick Houtman 73

6 From the logic of permanence to the logic of fragmentation: Socio-productive conditions and rearticulation of the middle-class / Eduardo Crespo Suarez, Florentino Moreno, Amparo Serrano Pascual 93

7 Social change and the risk of social exclusion in Greece: How do the middle classes fare? / Maria Petmesidou 115

8 Notes on neocapitalism, unemployment and social exclusion: The case of Greece / Zissis Papadimitriou, George Hadjiconstantinou 135

9 Impoverishment of the Russian population and the problem of middle-class formation under market transformations / Natalia Rimashevskaya, Galina Voitenkova 145

10 Middle-class uncertainty: A synthesis and a research agenda / Mart-Jan de Jong 157.

Notes:

Revised versions of papers presented at a conference held in Rockanje (the Netherlands) in November 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

079238119X

OCLC:

38207840