The New Middle Class and Democracy in Global Perspective (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333683057)

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?

Author: R. Glassman
ISBN-10: 0333683056
ISBN-13: 9780333683057
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 06/04/1997
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.69d