Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.