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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 421 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0521807484
  • 9780521807487
  • 0521002087
  • 9780521002080
  • 051118512X
  • 9780511185120
  • 0511185952
  • 9780511185953
  • 9780511499555
  • 0511499558
  • 128045766X
  • 9781280457661
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Discipline and development.DDC classification:
  • 338.95 21
LOC classification:
  • HT690.E18 D38 2004eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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.

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