Virtue Capitalists - The Rise Fall of Professional Class in Anglophone World, 1870 2008

Informationen zum Autor Hannah Forsyth is a historian at the Australian Catholic University, Sydney. She was President of Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society 2020-1. Her first book was A History of the Modern Australian University (2014). Klappentext "Forsyth examines the rise of the professional middle class in the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. She argues that the British middle class structured forms of virtue into expanding white-collar professional work, needed to drive both economic and civilizational expansion across the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand"-- Vorwort An ambitious study of the making of the professional middle class in the Anglophone world from c.1870 to 2008. Zusammenfassung Forsyth examines the rise of the professional middle class in the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. She argues that the British middle class structured forms of virtue into expanding white-collar professional work, needed to drive both economic and civilizational expansion across the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: capitalism, class, and virtue; Part I. Professionalizing the Anglo Economy, c.1870-1945: 2. Civilizing capitalism; 3. Achieving class; 4. From bourgeois to professional; Part II. Managing the Global Economy, c.1945?75; 5. Angels of the state; 6. Classy work; Part III. The New Class Conflict c.1975?08: 7. Moral crisis; 8. Success is the only virtue; Epilogue: contours of the new class conflict.

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Forsyth, Hannah (Australian Catholic University Forsyth, Forsyth Hannah
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781009206488
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0920648-8
• No. of pages: 317
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Capitalism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, c 2000 to c 2009, Colonialism and imperialism, North America (USA and Canada), Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa