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Taiwan's working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of some of its women and men. Hill Gates first provides a solid and informative introduction to Taiwan's history, showing how mainland China, Japan, the convulsions of twentieth-century wars, and the East Asian economic expansion interacted in forming Taiwanese urban life. She introduces nine individuals from Taiwan's three major ethnic groups to tell the stories of their lives in their own words. The narrators include a fortuneteller, a woman laborer, and a retired air force mechanic. A former spirit medium and a janitor are among the others who speak.

Working class --- -Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Employment --- Taiwan --- Social conditions --- -Social life and customs --- -Working class --- -Taiwan --- Commons (Social order) --- Social life and customs --- Social & cultural anthropology

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This work tackles both the social structure and the politics of social inequalities. It sets a comprehensive agenda for research which also includes the public role of social scientists in dealing with the transnationalized social question.

Labor. --- Working class. --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Manpower --- Work --- Employment

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Du tournant du xxe siècle à 1932, lorsque, sous l'impulsion de James Maxton, le parti travailliste indépendant se désaf-filia d'un parti travailliste jugé trop timoré, le mouvement ouvrier écossais servit de laboratoire d'idées à la gauche britannique, auquel il fournit ses personnalités les plus marquantes, travaillistes (Keir Hardie puis Ramsay MacDonald), travaillistes indépendants de l'ILP (Maxton, John Wheatley), communistes orthodoxes (Tom Bell, Willie Gallacher) ou rebelles (John Maclean). Outre qu'elle présentait une structure de l'emploi qui faisait la part belle à l'aristocratie ouvrière des mines, des chantiers navals et de la construction mécanique, l'Ecosse bénéficiait d'un système d'enseignement plus démocratique que l'anglais, et les débats idéologiques s'y nourrissaient de l'apport d'une catégorie quasi inconnue en Angleterre : les intellectuels diplômés d'origine ouvrière. C'est à Glasgow que se déroulèrent les luttes les plus originales de la période (grève des loyers de 1915, largement conduite par des femmes, et, en 1919, grève pour la semaine de quarante heures), que furent fondées les premières écoles socialistes du dimanche et que les collèges ouvriers connurent leur plus solide implantation. La contre-culture prolétarienne qui se développa en Ecosse est au cœur de ce livre, qui se penche, en outre, sur le déclin démographique et économique du pays, sur les conditions de vie et de travail de la classe ouvrière, sur les débats - notamment la question nationale - et les luttes qu'elle mena.

Labor movement --- Working class --- Political aspects --- History --- Political activity --- Social conditions --- Scotland --- Social conditions. --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Social movements --- Employment --- politique --- économie --- Écosse --- vie ouvrière

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Myungji Yang's From Miracle to Mirage is a critical account of the trajectory of state-sponsored middle-class formation in Korea in the second half of the twentieth century. Yang's book offers a compelling story of the reality behind the myth of middle-class formation. Capturing the emergence, reproduction, and fragmentation of the Korean middle class, From Miracle to Mirage traces the historical process through which the seemingly successful state project of building a middle-class society resulted in a mirage.Yang argues that profitable speculation in skyrocketing prices for Seoul real estate led to mobility and material comforts for the new middle class. She also shows that the fragility inherent in such developments was embedded in the very formation of that socioeconomic group.Taking exception to conventional views, Yang emphasizes the role of the state in producing patterns of class structure and social inequality. She demonstrates the speculative and exclusionary ways in which the middle class was formed. Domestic politics and state policies, she argues, have shaped the lived experiences and identities of the Korean middle class.From Miracle to Mirage gives us a new interpretation of the reality behind the myth. Yang's analysis provides evidence of how in cultural and objective terms the country's rapid, compressed program of economic development created a deeply distorted distribution of wealth.

Social status --- Middle class --- Bourgeoisie --- Commons (Social order) --- Middle classes --- Social classes --- Social standing --- Socio-economic status --- Socioeconomic status --- Standing, Social --- Status, Social --- Power (Social sciences) --- Prestige --- Social conditions --- Korea (South) --- Social conditions. --- South Korea, middle class, globalization, economic development.

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Considering Class: Theory, Culture and Media in the 21st Century offers the reader international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the importance of class analysis in the 21st century. Political economists, sociologists, educationalists, ethnographers, cultural and media analysts combine to provide a multi-dimensional account of current class dynamics. The crisis consists precisely in the gap between the objective reality and efficacy of class forces shaping international politics and the relative paucity of class-consciousness at a popular level and appreciation of class as an explanatory optic at a theoretical level. This important book shows why the process of reconstructing class consciousness must also take place on the ground of cultural and subjective formation where everyday values, habits and media practices are in play. Contributors are: Anita Biressi, Joseph Choonara, Maurizio Donato, Danny Dorling, Mark Gibson, Craig Haslop, Dave Hill, Peter Jakobsson, Marina Kabat, Holly Lewis, Catherine Lumby, Lisa Mckenzie, Tony Moore, Adrian Murray, Deirdre O’Neill, Jonathan Pratschke, Michael Seltzer, Eduardo Sartelli, Fredrik Stiernstedt, Roberto Taddeo, Mike Wayne, Milly Williamson, Ferruh Yılmaz.

Social classes --- Social stratification. --- Working class --- Culture --- Mass media --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Labor --- Stratification, Social --- Equality --- Social structure --- History. --- History --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Employment