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1 online resource (xii, 431 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-420) and index. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Middle class -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Middle class. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Middle class -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States. |
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Middle class -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Japan. |
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Middenklassen.
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Sociale verandering.
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Added Author |
Zunz, Olivier, editor.
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Schoppa, Leonard J. (Leonard James), 1962- editor.
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Hiwatari, Nobuhiro, 1955- editor.
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樋渡展洋, 1955- editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Social contracts under stress 0871549972 (DLC) 2001055714 (OCoLC)48475373 |
ISBN |
9781610445726 electronic book |
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1610445724 electronic book |
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0871549972 |
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9780871549976 |
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0871549980 |
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9780871549983 |
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