Title Discipline and development : middle classes and prosperity in East Asia and Latin America / Diane E. Davis

Published Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 421 pages) Contents An introduction to middle classes, discipline and development -- Middle classes and development theory -- Discipline and reward: rural middle classes and the South Korean development miracle -- Disciplinary development as rural middle class formation: proletarian peasants and farmer-workers in Argentina and Taiwan -- From victors to victims? Rural middle classes, revolutionary legacies, and the unfulfilled promise of disciplinary development in Mexico -- Disciplinary development in a new millennium: the global context of past gains and future prospects Summary Perhaps the most commonly held assumption in the field of development is that middle classes are the bounty of economic modernization and growth. As countries gradually transcend their agrarian past and become urbanized and industrialized, so the logic goes, middle classes emerge and gain in number, complexity, cultural influence, social prominence, and political authority. Yet this is only half the story. Middle classes shape industrial and economic development, they are not merely its product; the particular ways in which middle classes shape themselves - and the ways historical conditions shape them - influence development trajectories in multiple ways. This is the story of South Korea's and Taiwan's economic successes and Argentina's and Mexico's relative 'failures' through an examination of their rural middle classes and disciplinary capacities Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Middle class -- East Asia Middle class -- Latin America Industrialization -- East Asia Industrialization -- Latin America POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General. Industrialization Middle class Mittelstand Wirtschaftsentwicklung Industrialisierung Classe média -- América latina;ásia. Industrialização -- América latina;ásia. East Asia Latin America Ostasien Lateinamerika Form Electronic book ISBN 0521807484 9780521807487 0521002087 9780521002080 051118512X 9780511185120 0511185952 9780511185953 9780511499555 0511499558 128045766X 9781280457661 1107143985 9781107143982 0511187807 9780511187803 0511313802 9780511313806 0511186878 9780511186875

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