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The rise of professional society : England since 1880 /

A stimulating and controversial framework for the study of British society, challenging accepted paradigms based on class analysis. Perkins argues that the non-capitalist "professional class" represents a new principle of social organization

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Perkin, Harold James
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction to the 2002 edition; Preface to the first edition; The meaning of professional society; Class versus hierarchy; Professional rivalries and the state; The culmination of the Industrial Revolution; The zenith of class society; The height of inequality; The climacteric of British capitalism; The decline of Liberal England; The fear of the poor; A segregated society; The riven middle class; Lives apart: the remaking of the working class; Class society and the professional ideal; Professionalism and property; The defence of property.