Caring Capitalism: A New Middle-Class Base for the Welfare State - Hardcover

Glassman, Ronald M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333773845 ISBN 13: 9780333773840

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Synopsis

Everywhere one travels in the world, people are excited about the new high technology production system. But the global villagers are also perplexed about the new social service needs that seem to accompany the high-tech economy: child care needs for working couples, elder care facilities for infirm senior citizens, burgeoning health care costs accompanying high-tech medicine, nursery school and college tuition costs, and more. There has been a global response to these social service needs, and this book will present and analyse that response. For, a new phenomenon may be emerging, as contradictory as it may appear, a kind of 'caring capitalism' may arise, worldwide. This book explores the various attempts around the globe to create a system of 'caring capitalism' and why nations have been pressured by the 'new middle class' to do so.

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About the Author

Ronald R. Glassman is Professor of Sociology, William Paterson University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333773845
• ISBN 13: 9780333773840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272