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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zunz, Olivier.

Schoppa, Leonard J. (Leonard James), 1962-

Hiwatari, Nobuhiro, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class--Europe--History--20th century.

Middle class.

Middle class--United States--History--20th century.

Middle class--Japan--History--20th century.

History.

Japan.

United States.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2002]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-420) and index.

ISBN:

0871549972

OCLC:

48475373