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Middle Class Challenges and Contested Futures in the USA and South Korea

Kwang-Yeong Shin, Arne L. Kalleberg (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

215 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-4772-4 (ISBN)

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This book examines central challenges facing the middle class in the United States and South Korea. The US is the archetype of a liberal market economy with minimal state intervention, while South Korea exemplifies the developmental state, characterized by extensive state involvement in the economy and rapid industrialization and economic growth. Despite their distinct paths to post-industrial economies, the middle class in both nations has experienced labor market instability and widening economic inequality due to neoliberal political-economic labor market policies coupled with inadequate social protections. This book discusses macro-social changes and transformation of the middle class in the two countries, and their consequences for economic inequality, education, and family. It also presents policy ideas for revitalizing the middle class in both countries.

Kwang-Yeong Shin, a CAU Fellow at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea, focuses on social class, inequality, and welfare from a comparative perspective. His recent publications include Swedish Social Democracy: Labor, Welfare, and the Politics (2015) and Precarious Work in Asia (2022), co-authored with Kalleberg and Hewison. Shin investigates how labor market institutions and welfare policies shape social inequality. Kwang-Yeong Shin was President of the Korean Sociological Association (2017-2018). Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializes in the sociology of work, labor markets, and social stratification. He authored Good Jobs, Bad Jobs (2013) and Precarious Lives (2018). His latest book, Precarious Asia (2022), co-authored with Kwang-Yeong Shin and Kevin Hewison, explores global capitalism and work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia. Kalleberg served as the President of the American Sociological Association (2007-8) and currently edits Social Forces.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-0364-4772-3 / 1036447723
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-4772-4 / 9781036447724
Zustand	Neuware