Economic Restructuring and the Growing Uncertainty of the Middle Class
Economic Restructuring and the Growing Uncertainty of the Middle Class focuses on a relatively new research area which is becoming increasingly more important: the growing uncertainty of the middle class. Until recently, members of the middle class were n
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This project has been supported by the foundation "Vereniging Trustfonds Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam" and the "Koninklijke Nederlandse Acadernie van Wetenschappen" in the Netherlands.
Economic Restructuring and the Growing Uncertainty of the Middle Class Edited by
BRAMSTEIJN Erasmus University Rotterdam
JANBERTING Erasmus Un iversity Rollerdam
and
MART-JAN DE JONG Erasmus University Rotterdam
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-1-4613-7588-3 ISBN 978-1-4615-5655-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-5655-8
Printed on acid-free paper
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Contents
VII
Preface Notes on Contributors
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Introduction Bram Steijn. Jan Berting. and Mart-Jan de Jong I
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Rise and Fall of Middle-Class Society? How the Restructuring of Economic and Social Life Creates Uncertainty, Vulnerability, and Social Exclusion Jan Berting
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Social Exclusion and Inclusion within the British middle classes, 1980-1995
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Mike Savage
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Women's employment, the household and middle-class heterogeneity Rosemary Crompton
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Social Exclusion and Increasing Uncertainty of the Middle Classes: The West German Case Martin Kronauer
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Proletarization of the Dutch Middle Class: Fact or Fiction? Bram Steijn and Dick Houtman
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From the logic of permanence to the logic of fragmentation: SOOoproductive conditions and rearticulation of the middle-class Eduardo Crespo Suarez. Florentino Moreno. and Amparo Serrano Pascual
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Social change and the risk of social exclusion in Greece: How do the middle classes fare? Maria Petmesidou
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Notes on neocapitalism, unemployment and social exclusion: The case of Greece Zissis Papadimitriou and George Hadjiconstantinou
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Impoverishment of the Russian population and the problem of middle-class fonnation under market transfonnations Natalia Rimashevskaya and Ga/ina Voitenkova
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Middle-class uncertainty: A synthesis and a research agenda Mart-Jan de Jong
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Subject Index
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Name Index
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VI
Preface
Most readers will expect in the preface a short introduction to the theme of the book they are reading. This, however, is not the case with this preface. For an introduction to the theme of this book we refer to the introduction,' which also contains a short history of the origins of the project that has resulted in this book. It suffices to mention here that this book is the result of a conference held in Rockanje (the Netherlands) in November 1996. Most (but not all) contributors to this volume had submitted an earli
