Skip to content
Register Sign in Wishlist

Discipline and Development
Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America

£41.99

  • Date Published: May 2004
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521002080

£ 41.99
Paperback

Add to cart Add to wishlist

Other available formats:
Hardback, eBook


Looking for an inspection copy?

This title is not currently available on inspection

Description
Product filter button
Description
Contents
Resources
Courses
About the Authors
  • 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. Can disciplining continue in a context where globalization squeezes middle classes and frees capitalists from the state and social contracts in which they have been embedded?

    • Focuses on the middle classes, a subject not examined as central in development theory since the heyday of the modernization paradigm
    • Detailed analysis of South Korea, Taiwan, Argentina and Mexico ideal for area/country specialists
    • Re-introduces history into development theorizing, appealing to economic historians, historical sociologists, and development theorists
    Read more

    Customer reviews

    Not yet reviewed

    Be the first to review

    Review was not posted due to profanity

    ×

    , create a review

    (If you're not , sign out)

    Please enter the right captcha value
    Please enter a star rating.
    Your review must be a minimum of 12 words.

    How do you rate this item?

    ×

    Product details

    • Date Published: May 2004
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521002080
    • length: 436 pages
    • dimensions: 227 x 152 x 27 mm
    • weight: 0.582kg
    • contains: 6 tables
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Preface
    1. An introduction to middle classes, discipline and development
    2. Middle classes and development theory
    3. Discipline and reward: rural middle classes and the South Korean development miracle
    4. Disciplinary development as rural middle class formation: proletarian peasants and farmer-workers in Argentina and Taiwan
    5. From victors to victims? Rural middle classes, revolutionary legacies, and the unfulfilled promise of disciplinary development in Mexico
    6. Disciplinary development in a new millennium: the global context of past gains and future prospects
    Appendix A. Cases, comparisons, and a note on methodology and sources
    Appendix B. Defining the middle class: notes on boundaries and epistemology
    Appendix C. Tables
    Bibliography
    Index.

  • Author

    Diane E. Davis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Related Books

Sorry, this resource is locked

Please register or sign in to request access. If you are having problems accessing these resources please email lecturers@cambridge.org

Register Sign in
Please note that this file is password protected. You will be asked to input your password on the next screen.

» Proceed

You are now leaving the Cambridge University Press website. Your eBook purchase and download will be completed by our partner www.ebooks.com. Please see the permission section of the www.ebooks.com catalogue page for details of the print & copy limits on our eBooks.

Continue ×

Continue ×

Continue ×
warning icon

Turn stock notifications on?

You must be signed in to your Cambridge account to turn product stock notifications on or off.

Sign in Create a Cambridge account arrow icon
×

Find content that relates to you

Join us online

This site uses cookies to improve your experience. Read more Close

Are you sure you want to delete your account?

This cannot be undone.

Cancel

Thank you for your feedback which will help us improve our service.

If you requested a response, we will make sure to get back to you shortly.

×
Please fill in the required fields in your feedback submission.
×