Discipline and development : middle classes and prosperity in East Asia and Latin America / Diane E. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Diane E., 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class--East Asia.

Middle class.

Middle class--Latin America.

Industrialization--East Asia.

Industrialization.

Industrialization--Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 421 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Discipline & Development

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Perhaps the most commonly held assumption in the field of development is that middle classes are the bounty of economic modernization and growth. As countries gradually transcend their agrarian past and become urbanized and industrialized, so the logic goes, middle classes emerge and gain in number, complexity, cultural influence, social prominence, and political authority. Yet this is only half the story. Middle classes shape industrial and economic development, they are not merely its product; the particular ways in which middle classes shape themselves - and the ways historical conditions shape them - influence development trajectories in multiple ways. This is the story of South Korea's and Taiwan's economic successes and Argentina's and Mexico's relative 'failures' through an examination of their rural middle classes and disciplinary capacities. Can disciplining continue in a context where globalization squeezes middle classes and frees capitalists from the state and social contracts in which they have been embedded?

Contents:

An introduction to middle classes, discipline and development

Middle classes and development theory

Discipline and reward: rural middle classes and the South Korean development miracle

Disciplinary development as rural middle class formation: proletarian peasants and farmer-workers in Argentina and Taiwan

From victors to victims? Rural middle classes, revolutionary legacies, and the unfulfilled promise of disciplinary development in Mexico

Disciplinary development in a new millennium: the global context of past gains and future prospects.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14398-5

1-280-45766-X

0-511-18595-2

0-511-18512-X

0-511-18780-7

0-511-31380-2

0-511-49955-8

0-511-18687-8

OCLC:

171138570