Scott Lash is the author of many books and has also worked within the Centre for the Study of Cultural Values at the University of Lancaster. This book is a sequel to Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman's influential reader, Modernity and Identity, published by Blackwell in 1992.

• Acknowledgements vi Preface vii1 Introduction 12 The development of organized capitalism (1) 17Germany: the 'ideal type'? 17Sweden: from finance capital to social democracy 29Britain: the Makler economy 423 The development of organized capitalism (2) 56France: dislocation through 'economic forwardness' 56United States: instrumentalism and progressivism 674 Economic change and spatial restructuring (1) 84Britain 93The United States 1095 Economic change and spatial restructuring (2) 124France 124Germany 136Sweden 1526 The service class: its emergence and some consequences 161The American service class 163The service class in Europe 1787 Industry, finance, politics: modes of disorganization 196Industrial changes 196Banks and finance 201Political changes 2098 The changing structure of trade-unionism: the end of neo-corporatism? 232Sweden: the crisis of central bargaining 236West Germany: co-determination and disorganization 253France: labour excluded 262Britain: capitalism's weakest link 2699 Postmodern culture and disorganized capitalism: some conclusions 285The social basis of the postmodernist sensibility 285Capitalist disorganization and politics 300Notes 314Index 378

Scott Lash is the author of many books and has also worked within the Centre for the Study of Cultural Values at the University of Lancaster. This book is a sequel to Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman's influential reader, Modernity and Identity, published by Blackwell in 1992.

• Acknowledgements vi Preface vii1 Introduction 12 The development of organized capitalism (1) 17Germany: the 'ideal type'? 17Sweden: from finance capital to social democracy 29Britain: the Makler economy 423 The development of organized capitalism (2) 56France: dislocation through 'economic forwardness' 56United States: instrumentalism and progressivism 674 Economic change and spatial restructuring (1) 84Britain 93The United States 1095 Economic change and spatial restructuring (2) 124France 124Germany 136Sweden 1526 The service class: its emergence and some consequences 161The American service class 163The service class in Europe 1787 Industry, finance, politics: modes of disorganization 196Industrial changes 196Banks and finance 201Political changes 2098 The changing structure of trade-unionism: the end of neo-corporatism? 232Sweden: the crisis of central bargaining 236West Germany: co-determination and disorganization 253France: labour excluded 262Britain: capitalism's weakest link 2699 Postmodern culture and disorganized capitalism: some conclusions 285The social basis of the postmodernist sensibility 285Capitalist disorganization and politics 300Notes 314Index 378

Scott Lash is the author of many books and has also worked within the Centre for the Study of Cultural Values at the University of Lancaster. This book is a sequel to Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman's influential reader, Modernity and Identity, published by Blackwell in 1992.

• Acknowledgements vi Preface vii1 Introduction 12 The development of organized capitalism (1) 17Germany: the 'ideal type'? 17Sweden: from finance capital to social democracy 29Britain: the Makler economy 423 The development of organized capitalism (2) 56France: dislocation through 'economic forwardness' 56United States: instrumentalism and progressivism 674 Economic change and spatial restructuring (1) 84Britain 93The United States 1095 Economic change and spatial restructuring (2) 124France 124Germany 136Sweden 1526 The service class: its emergence and some consequences 161The American service class 163The service class in Europe 1787 Industry, finance, politics: modes of disorganization 196Industrial changes 196Banks and finance 201Political changes 2098 The changing structure of trade-unionism: the end of neo-corporatism? 232Sweden: the crisis of central bargaining 236West Germany: co-determination and disorganization 253France: labour excluded 262Britain: capitalism's weakest link 2699 Postmodern culture and disorganized capitalism: some conclusions 285The social basis of the postmodernist sensibility 285Capitalist disorganization and politics 300Notes 314Index 378