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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814374203321

Autore

Perkin Harold James

Titolo

The Third Revolution : professional elites in the modern world / / Harold Perkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996

ISBN

1-134-76394-8

0-203-28206-X

1-134-76395-6

1-280-05735-1

0-203-43935-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

305.5/53

305.553

909.82

Soggetti

Professions - History

Professions - Sociological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-245) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Preface; THE THIRD SOCIAL REVOLUTION; THE UNITED STATES: A FREE MARKET FOR CORPORATIONS; BRITAIN: KEYSTONE OF THE ARCH; FRANCE: A PLANNED MERITOCRACY; GERMANY: TWO VERSIONS OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY; SOVIET RUSSIA: GULLIVER'S GIANT; JAPAN: A FLOATING WORLD; TOWARDS A GLOBAL PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY; EPILOGUE: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?; Notes; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Perkin's ambitious new book examines the leading professional societies since World War II: those in the free market economies and also the collapsed command economies of Eastern Europe. He warns of the greed and corruption of their elites.