03159nam 2200565 450 991081711080332120230116101557.00-300-24082-110.12987/9780300240825(CKB)4100000007179051(MiAaPQ)EBC5607595(DE-B1597)515978(OCoLC)1076877146(DE-B1597)9780300240825(MiAaPQ)EBC7024206(Au-PeEL)EBL7024206(EXLCZ)99410000000717905120230116d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTwilight of the elites prosperity, the periphery, and the future of France /Christophe Guilluy ; translated from the French by Malcolm DeBevoise with a new prefaceNew Haven ;London :Yale University Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (184 pages)0-300-23376-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-167) and index.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 --IndexA 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 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.Social classesFranceHistory21st centurySocial stratificationFranceHistory21st centuryWorking classFranceHistory21st centuryFranceSocial conditions1995-FrancefastHistory.fastSocial classesHistorySocial stratificationHistoryWorking classHistory305.50944Guilluy Christophe1657104DeBevoise M. B.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817110803321Twilight of the elites4010324UNINA