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Guilluy Christophe |
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Twilight of the elites : prosperity, the periphery, and the future of France / / Christophe Guilluy ; translated from the French by Malcolm DeBevoise with a new preface |
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New Haven ; ; London : , : Yale University Press, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (184 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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Social classes - France - History - 21st century |
Social stratification - France - History - 21st century |
Working class - France - History - 21st century |
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France Social conditions 1995- |
France |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-167) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The New Citadels -- 2. An Americanized Society -- 3. The Management of Public Opinion -- 4. The Defection of the Working Class -- Conclusion -- Appendix: An Index of Socioeconomic Fragility -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A passionate account of how the gulf between France's metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society"-one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France has replaced the old left-right split, leaving many on "the periphery." As Guilluy shows, there is no unified French economy, and those cut off from the country's new economic citadels suffer disproportionately on both economic and social fronts. In Guilluy's analysis, the lip service paid to the idea of an "open society" has emerged in France as a smoke screen meant to hide the emergence of a closed society, walled off for the benefit of the upper classes. The |
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ruling classes in France are reaching a dangerous stage, he argues; without the stability of a growing economy, the hope for those excluded from growth is extinguished, undermining the legitimacy of a multicultural nation. |
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