Citizens, Families, and Reform

by Stein Ringen

Book Overview

Modern families are economic institutions of great productivity. They contribute as much to a society's economic well-being as does worker productivity in formal markets. In Citizens, Families, and Reform, Stein Ringen shows how long-standing inequalities of income and class are flexible and changing in post-industrial societies. Such inequalities respond to structural changes such as social mobility and to public policies such as those of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412804981
• ISBN13: 9781412804981
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"