Shifts in the Social Contract: Understanding Change in American Society

by Beth Rubin and Beth A Rubin

Examining the changes in society in the United States, Beth Rubin explains how the current era differs fundamentally from the post-World War Two period; how and why that change has occurred; and what its meaning is to everyday life. She traces the changes from a domestic to a global economy, the transformation of the workplace, and the impact that these changes have had on how other people are experiencing social aspects of their lives: their families and interpersonal relations, their communities and their experience of the culture of mass society.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803990405
• ISBN13: 9780803990401
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Should be titled "Shifts in the employment contract"

this was a good book. It spent most of its time discussing the change in America's workplace and work contract. If you wanted to be a truly devious student, you could just read the first and last chapter, and the conclusion of every chapter. Rubin does a great job summing things up in her conclusions. I suggest this book for proffesors who need a text that very completely describes shifts in America's workplace, and how culture, goverment, and society relate.