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Author : Marc Linder
Publisher : Frankfurt : Campus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book European Labor Aristocracies written by Marc Linder and published by Frankfurt : Campus. This book was released on 1985 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Stewart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982114207
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The 9.9 Percent written by Matthew Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “clear-eyed and incisive” (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone—including themselves. In 21st-century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90% have lost ground. What’s left of the American Dream has taken refuge in the 9.9% that lies just below the tip of extreme wealth. Collectively, the members of this group control more than half of the wealth in the country—and they are doing whatever it takes to hang on to their piece of the action in an increasingly unjust system. They log insane hours at the office and then turn their leisure time into an excuse for more career-building, even as they rely on an underpaid servant class to power their economic success and satisfy their personal needs. They have segregated themselves into zip codes designed to exclude as many people as possible. They have made fitness a national obsession even as swaths of the population lose healthcare and grow sicker. They have created an unprecedented demand for admission to elite schools and helped to fuel the dramatic cost of higher education. They channel their political energy into symbolic conflicts over identity in order to avoid acknowledging the economic roots of their privilege. And they have created an ethos of “merit” to justify their advantages. They are all around us. In fact, they are us—or what we are supposed to want to be. In this “captivating account” (Robert D. Putnam, author of Bowling Alone), Matthew Stewart argues that a new aristocracy is emerging in American society and it is repeating the mistakes of history. It is entrenching inequality, warping our culture, eroding democracy, and transforming an abundant economy into a source of misery. He calls for a regrounding of American culture and politics on a foundation closer to the original promise of America.
Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571811677
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)
Download or read book The Brave New World of European Labor written by Andrew Martin and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a common framework developed by a collaborative Harvard University and Brandeis University affiliated research team, this volume surveys and analyzes the strategic responses of national unions in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain to the last two decades of economic change. Also evaluated is the response of Sweden, long seen as the most successful variation of the European model, as well as EU level transnational unionism. The volume concludes with a reflection on new union positions and their implications, particularly on the question of what will happen to the "European model of society" as a consequence. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Stefano Micossi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789290799290
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The European Union in the 21st Century written by Stefano Micossi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this book are all members of EuropEos, a multidisciplinary group of jurists, economists, political scientists, and journalists in an ongoing forum discussing European institutional issues. The essays analyze emerging shifts in common policies, institutional settings, and legitimization, sketching out possible scenarios for the European Union of the 21st century. They are grouped into three sections, devoted to economics and consensus, international projection of the Union, and the institutional framework. Even after the major organizational reforms introduced to the EU by the new Treaty of Lisbon, which came into force in December 2009, Europe appears to remain an entity in flux, in search of its ultimate destiny. In line with the very essence of EuropEos, the views collected in this volume are sometimes at odds in their specific conclusions, but they stem from a common commitment to the European construction.
Author : John H. Kautsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138514652
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Social Democracy and the Aristocracy written by John H. Kautsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Aristocracy and Social Democracy: The Growth and Decline of Class Consciousness -- 1. Aristocratic Class Consciousness and Survival -- 2. The New Working Class and Its Class Consciousness -- 3. Socialist Parties Without a Mass Labor Base -- 4. The Growth and Optimism of Early Social Democracy -- 5. The Socialist Position on Democracy, on Capitalism and on the Aristocracy -- 6. The End of Socialist Growth, the Need for Non-Workers' Votes, and the Changing Working Class -- 7. From Workers' Party to People's Party, From Exclusion to Partnership -- 8. The Social Democrats' Achievements and Prospects -- 9. The Evolution of Japanese Social Democracy -- Part 2. No Aristocracy - No Social Democracy -- 10. Britain, the United States and Canada: Late Socialism, No Socialism and Little Socialism -- 11. The Aristocracy and Modernization From Without -- 12. The Modernizers' Revolution, Their Regime and Their Dilemma -- 13. Societies in the Wake of Modernizing Regimes -- 14. Labor under Post-Modernizing Regimes -- 15. The Absence of Socialist Labor Parties -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
Author : Paul Janssens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351938770
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book European Aristocracies and Colonial Elites written by Paul Janssens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Aristocracies', 'Old Regime colonial elites' - from Adam Smith to Karl Marx and beyond, scholars have discussed their role in the rise of the modern world, in economic development and capitalism. Generally speaking and with the exception of the English landlords, the verdict has been always negative. Furthermore, historians have usually viewed the Ancien régime aristocracies and colonial elites as social groups with entirely irrational or completely apathetic attitudes towards the management of their estates. This book constitutes the first attempt to analyse the question in a more critical and historical way. It takes a directly comparative approach, covering countries from Peru to Russia and from Naples to England in the early modern period and up to the end of the 18th century. The rationale of how these elites administered their patrimonies, its political, social and sometime moral dimensions, and the real effects of all this on economic development are considered here as key aspects for a better understanding of economic life. The result is a quite different picture in which economic history is also seen as the outcome of human actions in their own social and political context.
Author : William Doyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199206783
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Aristocracy: A Very Short Introduction written by William Doyle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging introduction shows how ideas of aristocracy originated in ancient times, were transformed in the middle ages, and have only fallen apart over the last two centuries.
Author : H. W. Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Labor Aristocracy, Mass Base of Social Democracy written by H. W. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wendy Loretto
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447325125
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Gender, Ageing and Extended Working Life written by Wendy Loretto and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nations that are raising retirement ages appear to work on the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are expected to retire later. 'Gender, ageing and extended working life' challenges both this narrative, and the gender-neutral way the expectation for extending working lives is presented in most policy-making circles. The international contributors to this book - part of the Ageing in a Global Context series - apply life-course approaches to understanding evolving definitions of work and retirement. They consider the range of transitions from paid work to retirement that are potentially different for women and men in different family circumstances and occupational locations, and offer solutions governments should consider to enable them to evaluate existing policies. Based on evidence from Australia, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, this is essential reading for researchers and students, and for policymakers who formulate and implement employment and pensions policy at national and international levels.
Author : Jonathan Dewald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521425285
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)
Download or read book The European Nobility, 1400-1800 written by Jonathan Dewald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-05-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative and accessible survey of the European nobility over four centuries.
Author : John H. Kautsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351325345
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Social Democracy and the Aristocracy written by John H. Kautsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the rise of mass labor movements in the late nineteenth century, socialism has been seen as an inevi- table and antagonistic response to capitalism and the spread of industrialization. Over the course of the twentieth century, however, socialism's failure to gain ground in the United States and most of the non-Western world exposed the limited, Eurocentric views of socialist theorists, and also the inadequacy of the theory as it applied to Europe as well. John Kautsky argues that a key factor in the development of social democratic labor movements was the persistence of powerful remnants of aristocratic institutions and ideologies whose survival into the industrial age preserved exclusionary hierarchies. These led, in turn, to radicalism and class consciousness among workers.Kautsky traces the evolution of socialist labor movements in Europe and Japan where aristocratic elements were still strong, detailing the survival of aristocratic privilege and the concomitants of worker class consciousness and demands for equality. He shows how social democratic reliance on free elections was primarily a weapon against the aristocracy rather than capitalism. Contradicting socialist theory, working-class growth came to an end, class lines became blurred, and a considerable degree of equality was achieved through the welfare state. Kautsky turns to those countries that were sufficiently industrialized to have large numbers of workers, but also had reasonably free elections, civil liberties, and less repression of trade unions. Though the United States, Canada, post-Soviet Russia, Mexico, and India have very different histories and societies, their workers have not confronted a powerful aristocracy. Great Britain, the first and for long the most advanced industrial country, was virtually the last to develop a socialist labor movement. In contrast, socialist movements in Canada and the United States, where egalitarian traditions were strong, found little support. Kautsky's concluding chapters treat the spread of corruption, the rise of new oligarchies in Russia, and the position of workers no longer honored and politically weak. In its innovative perspective on long-held theories and its currency for contemporary problems, Social Democracy and Aristocracy is an important contribution to political thought in the post-Marxist world. Its global approach makes it uniquely valuable for the comparative study of labor history and economic development.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Workers Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Zielonka
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199231869
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Europe as Empire written by Jan Zielonka and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a strikingly new perspective on EU enlargement. Basing his findings on substantial empirical evidence, Zielonka presents a carefully argued account of the kind of political entity the European Union is becoming, with particular reference to recent enlargement.
Author : Peter Robert Lamont Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (615 download)
Download or read book The World of Late Antiquity Ad 150 - 750 written by Peter Robert Lamont Brown and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zak Cope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781894946681
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (466 download)
Download or read book Divided World, Divided Class written by Zak Cope and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided World Divided Class charts the history of the 'labour aristocracy' in the capitalist world system, from its roots in colonialism to its birth and eventual maturation into a full-fledged middle class in the age of imperialism. It argues that pervasive national, racial and cultural chauvinism in the core capitalist countries is not primarily attributable to 'false class consciousness', ideological indoctrination or ignorance as much left and liberal thinking assumes. Rather, these and related forms of bigotry are concentrated expressions of the major social strata of the core capitalist nations' shared economic interest in the exploitation and repression of dependent nations. The book demonstrates not only how redistribution of income derived from super-exploitation has allowed for the amelioration of class conflict in the wealthy capitalist countries, it also shows that the exorbitant 'super-wage' paid to workers there has meant the disappearance of a domestic vehicle for socialism, an exploited working class. Rather, in its place is a deeply conservative metropolitan workforce committed to maintaining, and even extending, its privileged position through imperialism. This second edition includes new material such as data on growing inequality between the richest and poorest countries; data illustrating rising real wages in Imperial Britain; explication of the concepts of value, monopoly capital and unequal exchange and their ramifications for the global class structure; discussion of social imperialism on the left; responses to critiques surrounding the thesis of mass embourgeoisement through imperialism; as well as further information on a range of subjects.
Author : Bromma
Publisher : Kersplebedeb Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781894946575
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (465 download)
Download or read book The Worker Elite written by Bromma and published by Kersplebedeb Pub. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionaries often say that the working class holds the key to overthrowing capitalism. But "working class" is a very broad category--so broad that it can be used to justify a whole range of political agendas. The Worker Elite: Notes on the "Labor Aristocracy" breaks it all down, criticizing opportunists who minimize the role of privilege within the working class, while also challenging simplistic Third Worldist analyses. In this provocative study, Bromma highlights the stratification of the working class under modern capitalism, using examples from specific industries and historical events to illustrate the development and key characteristics of the worker elite. He argues that this privileged layer has evolved into a mass middle class with multiple functions in the imperialist system, including attacking and misdirecting the struggles of the global proletariat. As Bromma concludes, "Class struggle is going on every day inside the working class. It's time to choose where our class loyalty lies--with the proletariat or with its minders in the worker elite."
Author : Paul Zarembka
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781906718
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Contradictions written by Paul Zarembka and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together renowned political economy scholars, this volume analyzes two decisive factors in the world spread of capitalism: - a shift toward dominance of the financial sector; - global wage differentials so deep that recognition of a labor aristocracy cannot be avoided.
