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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Pine Forge Press,
©1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART ONE: SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; Society in Transition; The American Dream; Accord in the Post-World War II Era; End of a Century, End of an Era; Implications; PART TWO: FROM INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY TO FLEXIBLE ECONOMY; The Labor-Capital Accord; The Breakdown of the Accord; The Emerging Economy; Conclusions; PART THREE: WORK IN THE FLEXIBLE ECONOMY; Labor Market Segmentation; Work in the Accord Years; The Stable Workplace; Work in the Post-Accord Years; The Flexible Workplace; The Challenge to Education; Conclusions; PART FOUR: FLEXIBLE FAMILIES; From Pre-Industrial Families to Modern Families; Accord-Era Families; Forming Flexible Families; Conclusions; PART FIVE: THE CHANGING ROLE OF GOVERNMENT; Levels of Government Involvement; The Uninvolved State; The Involved State; The Distracted State; Conclusions; PART SIX: CULTURE IN A CHANGING WORLD; Culture; The Creation of Meaning; Forces of Cultural Change; Globalization and Cultural Change; Conclusions; PART SEVEN: TRANSITION TO THE FUTURE; The Decline of the Postwar Social Contract, Revisited; A New Era of Flexibility; Possible Worlds; Conclusions;