Den westlichen Industriegesellschaften steht ein dramatischer Wandel in der Altersstruktur bevor. Wallace beschreibt die Auswirkungen auf Finanzmärkte, Eigentumsverhältnisse, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Kultur, Arbeitsmarkt sowie Rentensystem.

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...

This book explores what happens to socially committed performance when state systems of social security are dismantled. Since 2010, a punishing programme of economic austerity and a seismic overhaul of the Welfare State in the United Kingdom has been accompanied by an ideological assault on...