The Third Revolution

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-415-14338-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

This volume examines the leading professional societies since World War II - those in the free market economies of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Japan, and those in the collapsed command economies of East Germany and the Soviet Union. It praises their achievements, but also warns of the greed and corruption of their elites, aking whether corruption rather than ideology caused the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and if Anglo-American capitalism is likely to go the same way.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perkin, Harold

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1 THE THIRD SOCIAL REVOLUTION 2 THE UNITED STATES: A FREE MARKET FOR CORPORATIONS 3 BRITAIN: KEYSTONE OF THE ARCH 4 FRANCE: A PLANNED MERITOCRACY 5 GERMANY: TWO VERSIONS OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY 6 SOVIET RUSSIA: GULLIVER’S GIANT 7 JAPAN: A FLOATING WORLD 8 TOWARDS A GLOBAL PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY. EPILOGUE: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

Über Autor(innen)

Harold Perkin is Professor of History and Higher Education at Northwestern University. Among his books are The Origins of Modern English Society, 1780–1880 (1969) and The Rise of Professional Society (1989).