04946nam 2200589 a 450 991097183000332120251116231723.00-8070-9749-7(CKB)1000000000541948(OCoLC)506071117(CaPaEBR)ebrary10256102(SSID)ssj0000092628(PQKBManifestationID)11508705(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000092628(PQKBWorkID)10012562(PQKB)11208820(MiAaPQ)EBC3118032(Au-PeEL)EBL3118032(CaPaEBR)ebr10256102(OCoLC)922967987(BIP)26754028(BIP)14711904(EXLCZ)99100000000054194820070926d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccr(Not) keeping up with our parents the decline of the professional middle class /Nan MooneyBoston Beacon Pressc20081 online resource (264 p.) "Published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations"--T.p. verso.0-8070-1138-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-241) and index.The new reality -- From the New Deal to the new economy : a short history of the American middle class -- College promises : real debt and false expectations -- Career and contribution : society or the 401(k)? -- To have or to hold : money, marriage, and children -- What were the benefits? : health care, retirement and everything else the government was supposed to help provide -- Bridging the gaps : saving, spending, and debt -- A question of equity : rent rich or house poor -- From ripples to revolution : changing the system, changing ourselves.The first book to exclusively target the struggles of the professional middle class-educated individuals who purposely choose humanistic, intellectual, or creative pursuits-Nan Mooney's (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents is a simultaneously sobering and proactive work that captures a diversity of voices. Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with people all across America, (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents explores how stagnant wages, debt, and escalating costs for tuition, health care, and home ownership are jeopardizing today's educated middle class. Teachers, counselors, nonprofit employees, environmentalists, journalists, and the author speak candidly about their sense of economic-and hence emotional-security, and their plans and fears about what's to come. With up-to-date and accessible research, including a short history of the middle class, Mooney explains what it has meant historically to be middle class and how these definitions have changed so dramatically over the decades. She shows that social programs once aided the growth of this class but shifts in policies and labor practices-and increases in fixed costs, such as health care, housing, education, childcare, and household debt-are making it increasingly difficult for families to retain their middle-class status. Throughout the book, Mooney uses real people's stories and an analysis of the new economic reality to put middle-class struggles in perspective: College tuition has increased 35 percent in the past five years, and while the average college undergraduate's debt is $20,000, earnings for graduates have remained stagnant since 2000. In addition, only 18 percent of middle-class families have three months' income saved, and 90 percent of those filing for bankruptcy are middle class. Finally, raising one child through age eighteen costs a middle-income family around $237,000, while the costs of housing, health care, and education are all rising faster than inflation. Despite this difficult reality, Mooney offers concrete ideas on how individuals and society can arrest this downward spiral. Reigniting a sense of social responsibility is crucial-this ranges from improving government-backed education, health care, and childcare programs to drawing on successful models from individual states and other countries. Intimate personal accounts combined with Mooney's incisive analysis will make (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents resonate deeply for America's professional middle class.Professional employeesUnited StatesMiddle classUnited StatesEconomic conditionsCollege graduatesUnited StatesEconomic conditions21st centuryProfessional employeesMiddle classEconomic conditions.College graduatesEconomic conditions330.9730086/22Mooney Nan1970-1869999MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971830003321Not) keeping up with our parents4478311UNINA05128oam 2200637I 450 991097078630332120251117100839.01-136-23314-80-203-10096-41-136-23315-610.4324/9780203100967 (CKB)2670000000369127(EBL)1209531(SSID)ssj0000948729(PQKBManifestationID)11602673(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000948729(PQKBWorkID)10951882(PQKB)11002234(MiAaPQ)EBC1209531(Au-PeEL)EBL1209531(CaPaEBR)ebr10716340(CaONFJC)MIL495355(OCoLC)847526852(FINmELB)ELB136192(EXLCZ)99267000000036912720180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrProgressive corporate governance for the 21st century /Lorraine Talbot1st ed.Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;New York, NY :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (272 p.)Routledge research in corporate lawDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-80520-3 0-415-56382-8 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.1. Progressive thought and the historical emergence of the company in England 1770-1900 -- 2. Corporate governance in the United Kingdom in the 20th century : including a period of progressive governance -- 3. The United States and progressive governance : the historical development of the American corporation 1790-1944 -- 4. The managerialists' progressive corporation and the rise of neoliberal corporate governance -- 5. The retreat from progress : modern corporate governance, substance and form -- 6. The march to anti-progressiveness : neoliberalism and transition economies."Progressive Corporate Governance for the 21st Century is a wide ranging and ambitious study of why corporate governance is in the shape that it is, and how it can be improved. The book sets out the emergence of a shareholder primacy orientated corporate governance using a study of historical development in the United Kingdom and the United States. Talbot sees shareholder primacy as a political choice made by governments, not a "natural" feature of the inevitable market. She describes the periods of progressive corporate governance which governments adopted in the middle of the twentieth century with a close examination of the theories of the company which then prevailed. She critically examines the rise of neoliberal theories on the company and corporate governance and argues that their approach and impact is socially regressive. In examining contemporary corporate governance she shows how the form of governance, as informed and described by prevailing regulatory theories, enables neoliberal outcomes. She illustrates how United Kingdom-derived corporate governance codes have had global influence, constructing the corporate governance initiatives of European and global institutions. She argues that the form of the Codes enables a neoliberal agenda to proliferate with negative social consequences. After illustrating how ex-command economies were earlier subjected to failed and destructive neoliberal proscriptions for transition she shows how neoliberalism has re-entered these economies through United Kingdom and OECD inspired corporate governance Codes. The book concludes with suggestions for new approaches which would make the company work for the people, rather than the shareholder"--Provided by publisher."This book provides a critical and comparative approach to corporate governance. The book sets out, and makes a case for what the author terms 'progressive corporate governance', in order to promote an approach to corporations which furthers social progress. The book takes a hybrid approach in order to bridge the gap between theory and practice, and assesses the situation in Anglo-American, European and transitional economies. The book argues that in judging which governance theories and practices are progressive one must consider them in historical and social context and it also considers whether there are some governance approaches which may be said to be universally progressive. The book looks at progressive corporate governance in the light of the recent worldwide economic crises and explores how state intervention should proceed. "--Provided by publisher.Routledge research in corporate law.Corporate governanceLaw and legislationCorporate governanceLaw and legislation.338.60941BUS010000LAW000000LAW016000bisacshTalbot Lorraine761245MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970786303321Progressive corporate governance for the 21st century4485235UNINA