The Development of Industrial Society in Ireland
The Third Joint Meeting of the Royal Irish Academy and the British Academy
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; 79;
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Product details:
- Publisher The British Academy
- Date of Publication 28 January 1993
- ISBN 9780197261200
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages476 pages
- Size 243x164x12 mm
- Weight 872 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 41 figures 0
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Short description:
Questions of the typicality or 'exceptionalism' of the Irish experience are discussed, and the relevance of this experience for current theories of industrialism and 'modernization' is critically examined.
Long description:
An important text for scholars and students on an aspect of Irish society that has been inadequately covered elsewhere. Ireland is one of the nations of the western world in which industrialization was longest delayed. In these papers, sociologists, economists and political scientists offer 'rich and original insights into how Irish society has developed, particularly over the last 30 years' (Irish Times). Questions of the typicality or 'exceptionalism' of the Irish experience are discussed, and the relevance of this experience for current theories of industrialism and 'modernization' is critically examined.
MoreTable of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Context of Economic Development
- Problems of Industrialisation in Ireland
- The Demographic Transition in Ireland in International Context
- The Significance of Small-Scale Landholders in Ireland's Socio-economic Transformation
- Industrialisation, Class Formation and Social Mobility in Ireland
- Explaining the Irish Pattern of Social Fluidity: The Role of the Political
- Change in Intragenerational Mobility in the Republic of Ireland
- Income Distribution and Redistribution: Ireland in Comparative Perspective
- The Irish Welfare State in Comparative Perspective
- Catholicism and Industrial Society in Ireland
- Social and Religious Transformation in Ireland: A Case of Secularization?
- The Liberal Theory of Industrialism and the Development of Industrial Relations in Ireland
- The State and Economic Interests: Ireland in Comparative Perspective
- Are Irish Parties Peculiar?
- Explaining the Absence of Class Politics in Ireland
- The Theory of Industrialism and the Irish Case
- Bibliography
- Index
