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Contributors=ix
Acknowledgments=xi
Introduction:Social Contracts Under Stress/Olivier Zunz=1
Part I. NATIONAL PATHS TO MIDDLE-CLASS FORMATION
1. From Divergence to Convergence: The Divided German Middle Class, 1945 to 2000/Hannes Siegrist=21
2. Individuality and Class: The Rise and Fall of the Gentlemanly Social Contract in Britain/Mike Savage=47
3. The Middle Classes in France: Social and Political Functions of Semantic Pluralism from 1870 to 2000/Christophe Charle=66
4. Could Postwar France Become a Middle-class Society?/Patrick Fridenson=89
5. The Short Happy Life of the Japanese Middle Class/Andrew Gordon=108
6. Inflation: "The Permanent Dilemma" of the American Middle Classes/Meg Jacobs=130
Part II. CONSTITUENCIES IN CONFLICT
7. Public Policy and the Middle-class Racial Divide After the Second World War/Ira Katznelson=157
8. The American Middle Class and the Politics of Education/Margaret Weir=178
9. Changing Gender and Family Models: Their Impact on the Social Contract in European Welfare States/Chiara Saraceno=204
10. At the Limits of New Middle-class Japan: Beyond "Mainstream Consciousness"/William W. Kelly=232
11. Twelve Million Full-time Housewives: The Gender Consequences of Japan's Postwar Social Contract/Mari Osawa=255
Part III. VANISHING BORDERS AND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
12. Disinflationary Adjustment: The Link Between Economic Globalization and Challenges to Postwar Social Contracts/Nobuhiro Hiwatari=281
13. Globalization and the Squeeze on the Middle Class: Does Any Version of the Postwar Social Contract Meet the Challenge?/Leonard Schoppa=319
14. Europeanization of Social Policy: A Reopening of the Social Contract?/Bo Odiaeresishngren=345
15. Europe from Division to Reunification: The Eastern European Middle Classes During and After Socialism/Maurice Aymard=362
16. Upsetting Models: An Italian Tale of the Middle Classes/Arnaldo Bagnasco=379
Statistical Appendix: Income Inequality in Seven Nations-France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States/Derek Hoff=401
Selected Bibliography=411
Index=421