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Shifts in the Social Contract : Understanding Change in American Society.
Examining the changes in society in the United States, Beth Rubin explains how the current era differs fundamentally from the post-World War Two period; how and why that change has occurred; and what its meaning is to everyday life. She traces the changes from a domestic to a global economy, the tra...
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
1995.
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| 520 | |a Examining the changes in society in the United States, Beth Rubin explains how the current era differs fundamentally from the post-World War Two period; how and why that change has occurred; and what its meaning is to everyday life. She traces the changes from a domestic to a global economy, the transformation of the workplace, and the impact that these changes have had on how other people are experiencing social aspects of their lives: their families and interpersonal relations, their communities and their experience of the culture of mass society. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 -- Social Change in the Twentieth Century; Society in Transition; Economic Transformations; Shifts in the Social Contract; The American Dream; Accord in the Post-World War II Era; Economic Growth and Workplace Security; Marriage, Family, and a House in the Suburbs; Activist Government; Culture and Counterculture; End of a Century, End of an Era; Insecurity in the Economy and the Workplace; Changing Family Structures and Roles; Distracted Government; Cultural Confusion; Implications; Chapter 2 -- From Industrial Economy to Flexible Economy. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Labor-Capital AccordUnions and Big Business; The Accord and the Dual Economy; The Economic Consequences of the Accord; The Breakdown of the Accord; Failed Competition and Declining Profitability; Corporate Strategies for Maintaining Profits; The Emerging Economy; Flexible Production and Flexible Accumulation; Dualism in the Service Sector; Structural Unemployment, Inequality, and the Broken Contract; Conclusions; Chapter 3 -- Work in the Flexible Economy; Labor Market Segmentation; Work in the Accord Years: The Stable Workplace; Good Jobs: Blue-Collar Jobs in the Primary Labor Market. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Good Jobs: White-Collar Jobs in the Primary Labor MarketBad Jobs: The Secondary Labor Market; Work in the Post-Accord Years: The Flexible Workplace; Good Jobs: Dynamically Flexible Workers; Bad Jobs: Statically Flexible Workers; The Challenge to Education; Education in the Accord Era; Education and the Emerging Economy; Conclusions; Chapter 4 -- Flexible Families; From Preindustrial Families to Modern Families; The Agrarian Family as Production Unit; The Modern Family as Consumer Unit; Accord-Era Families; The Implicit Contract: Homemakers and Breadwinners; Breakdown of the Accord Family. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Forming Flexible FamiliesFlexible Specialization and the Middle Class; Numerical Flexibility and the Working Class; The New Economy and the Underclass; The Feminization of Poverty; Conclusions; Chapter 5 -- The Changing Role of Government; Levels of Government Involvement; The Uninvolved State; The Protection of Property; Regulation of Employment Relations; Depression, War, and the End of an Era; The Involved State; The Welfare State; The Warfare State; Tensions in the Involved State; The Distracted State; Globalization of the Economy; Fiscal Crisis; Technological Distractions. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a New Social MovementsConclusions; Chapter 6 -- Culture in a Changing World; Culture: The Creation of Meaning; Culture Versus Social Structure; The Social Contract as Cultural Metaphor; Forces of Cultural Change; Faith, Hope, and Culture; Fundamentalism and Social Change; Religion and the Emerging Social Contract; Globalization and Cultural Change; The Impact of Immigration; The Challenge of Multiculturalism; The Impact of Technology; Conclusions; Chapter 7 -- Transition to the Future; The Decline of the Postwar Social Contract, Revisited; A New Era of Flexibility; Possible Worlds. | |
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