Harold Perkin

The Rise of Professional Society (eBook, ePUB)

England Since 1880

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Rise of Professional Society lays out 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 based on trained expertise and meritocracy, a "forgotten middle class" conveniently overlooked by classical social theorists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134416813
• Artikelnr.: 47885275

Autorenporträt

Harold Perkin is Professor Emeritus of History at Northwestern University, Evanstone, Illinois; Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University. He is author of numerous books including The Origins of English Society 1780-880 (1969), The Age of the Railway (1970) and The Third Revolution (1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the 2002 edition Preface to the first edition 1 The meaning
of professional society 1 Class versus hierarchy 2 Professional rivalries
and the state 3 The culmination of the Industrial Revolution 2 The zenith
of class society 1 The height of inequality 2 The climacteric of British
capitalism 3 The decline of Liberal England 4 The fear of the poor 3 A
segregated society 1 The rich and the powerful 2 The riven middle class 3
Lives apart: the remaking of the working class 4 Class society and the
professional ideal 1 The professional social ideal 2 Professionalism and
property 3 The defence of property 4 The professional ideal and the origins
of the welfare state 5 The crisis of class society 1 The aborted pre-war
crisis 2 The supreme test of class society 3 The crisis averted 6 A halfway
house: society in war and peace 1 The great divide, 1914-18 2 Social change
between the wars 3 The old order changeth 4 'Money isn't everything' 5
Spiralists and burgesses 6 The road from Wigan Pier 7 Towards a corporate
society 1 The corporate economy 2 The corporate state 3 The corporate
society 8 The triumph of the professional ideal 1 The professional ideal
and the decline of the industrial spirit 2 Professionalism and human
capital 3 The condescension of professionalism 9 The plateau of
professional society 1 The Second World War and the revolution in
expectations 2 'Most of our people have never had it so good' 3 The
bifurcation of the professional ideal 4 The persistence of class 10 The
backlash against professional society 1 Professionalism under fire 2
Rolling back the state? 3 The resurgence of the free market ideology 4
Britain's economic decline and the political dilemma