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Caring Capitalism

A New Middle-Class Base for the Welfare State

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  • © 2000

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  1. Ronald M. Glassman

    1. William Paterson University, New Jersey, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Prologue: the Productive Miracle and the Specific Pattern of Social Problems Engendered by It

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    Pages 1-12

  3. The High-Technology Economy of Abundance: Goods vs Services

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    Pages 13-18

  4. The Specific Pattern of Social Problems Linked to the New Middle Class

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    Pages 19-44

  5. The Working Class Divided: New Middle-Class Mobility vs Underclass Decline

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    Pages 45-50

  6. The Specific Pattern of Social Problems Engulfing the Global Underclass

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    Pages 51-63

  7. The Social Problems of the New Upper Class

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    Pages 64-74

  8. The Welfare State for the New Rich

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    Pages 75-97

  9. The Welfare State: Expansions, Cutbacks and Co-Payments

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    Pages 98-129

  10. The Rising Cost of Services in High-Tech Societies and Revenue-Generating Mechanisms

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    Pages 130-152

  11. Why Transfer Payments are Necessary in High-Tech Industrial Capitalist Societies

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    Pages 153-181

  12. The Free Market and Morality

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    Pages 182-214

  13. Religious and Secular Curbs on the Selfishness and Amorality of the Market

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    Pages 215-243

  14. Epilogue: Why Care?

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    Pages 244-246

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 247-266
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Everywhere one travels in the world, people are excited about the new high technology production system. But the global villagers are also perplexed about the new social service needs that seem to accompany the high-tech economy: child care needs for working couples, elder care facilities for infirm senior citizens, burgeoning health care costs accompanying high-tech medicine, nursery school and college tuition costs, and more. There has been a global response to these social service needs, and this book will present and analyse that response. For, a new phenomenon may be emerging, as contradictory as it may appear, a kind of 'caring capitalism' may arise, worldwide. This book explores the various attempts around the globe to create a system of 'caring capitalism' and why nations have been pressured by the 'new middle class' to do so.

Authors and Affiliations

  • William Paterson University, New Jersey, USA

    Ronald M. Glassman

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Ronald R. Glassman is Professor of Sociology, William Paterson University.

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