Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870-2008 - Couverture rigide

Forsyth, Hannah

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009206486 ISBN 13 : 9781009206488

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Virtue Capitalists explores the rise of the professional middle class across the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. With a focus on British settler colonies - Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States - Hannah Forsyth argues that the British middle class structured old forms of virtue into rapidly expanding white-collar professional work, needed to drive both economic and civilizational expansion across their settler colonies. They invested that virtue to produce social and economic profit. This virtue became embedded in the networked Anglophone economy so that, by the mid twentieth century, the professional class ruled the world in alliance with managers whose resources enabled the implementation of virtuous strategies. Since morality and capital had become materially entangled, the 1970s economic crisis also presented a moral crisis for all professions, beginning a process whereby the interests of expert and managerial workers separated and began to actively compete.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hannah Forsyth is a historian at the Australian Catholic University, Sydney. She was President of Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society 2020-1. Her first book was A History of the Modern Australian University (2014).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009206486
• ISBN 13: 9781009206488
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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