Discipline and Development - Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America

Klappentext An examination of South Korea's and Taiwan's economic successes and Argentina's and Mexico's relative 'failures' through their rural middle classes. Zusammenfassung South Korea's and Taiwan's economic successes and Argentina's and Mexico's relative 'failures' are compared through examination of their rural middle classes and disciplinary capacities. Can disciplining continue in a context where globalization squeezes middle classes and frees capitalists from state and social contracts? Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. An introduction to middle classes, discipline and development; 2. Middle classes and development theory; 3. Discipline and reward: rural middle classes and the South Korean development miracle; 4. Disciplinary development as rural middle class formation: proletarian peasants and farmer-workers in Argentina and Taiwan; 5. From victors to victims? Rural middle classes, revolutionary legacies, and the unfulfilled promise of disciplinary development in Mexico; 6. Disciplinary development in a new millennium: the global context of past gains and future prospects; Appendix A. Cases, comparisons, and a note on methodology and sources; Appendix B. Defining the middle class: notes on boundaries and epistemology; Appendix C. Tables; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Diane E. Davis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2004
• EAN: 9780521807487
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80748-7
• No. of pages: 436
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; Argentina, Taiwan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social & cultural history, Economic history, South Korea, Regional Studies, Sociology & anthropology, Development economics & emerging economies, Sociology and anthropology, Development economics and emerging economies