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Twilight of the elites : prosperity, the periphery, and the future of France / Christophe Guilluy ; translated from the French by Malcolm DeBevoise with a new preface.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guilluy, Christophe, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social classes--France--History--21st century.
- Social classes.
- Social stratification--France--History--21st century.
- Social stratification.
- Working class--France--History--21st century.
- Working class.
- France--Social conditions--1995-.
- France.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The New Citadels
- 2. An Americanized Society
- 3. The Management of Public Opinion
- 4. The Defection of the Working Class
- Conclusion
- Appendix: An Index of Socioeconomic Fragility
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-167) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-24082-1
- OCLC:
- 1076877146
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