The New Middle Class and Democracy in Global Perspective

The New Middle Class and Democracy in Global Perspective
ISBN-10
0230371884
ISBN-13
9780230371880
Category
Social Science
Pages
278
Language
English
Published
1997-06-03
Publisher
Springer
Author
R. Glassman

Description

High technology capitalism utilizes computers, robots, and global information networks. It has engendered new classes - technocrats, bureaucrats, service and office workers - who will impact the structure and values of society. The question most central for us is that of the survival of democracy on this new base. Will the New Middle Class become the carrying class for a modern form of democracy utilizing the sophisticated communications technology, or will democracy decline under the weight of the managerial and technocratic strata essential to the functioning of the modern economic and political institutions?

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