Alberta Andreotti - Böcker

Globalised Minds, Roots in the City utilises empirical evidence from four European cities to explore the role of urban upper middle classes in the transformations experienced by contemporary European societies.  Presents new empirical evidence collected through an original comparative research about professionals and managers in four European cities in three countriesFeatures an innovative combination of approaches, methods, and techniques in its analyses of European post-national societiesReveals how segments of Europe’s  urban population are adopting “exit” or “partial exit” strategies in respect to the nation stateUtilises approaches from classic urban sociology, globalization and mobility studies, and spatial class analysisIncludes in depth interviews, social networking techniques, and classic questions of political representation and values

Globalised Minds, Roots in the City utilises empirical evidence from four European cities to explore the role of urban upper middle classes in the transformations experienced by contemporary European societies.  Presents new empirical evidence collected through an original comparative research about professionals and managers in four European cities in three countriesFeatures an innovative combination of approaches, methods, and techniques in its analyses of European post-national societiesReveals how segments of Europe’s  urban population are adopting “exit” or “partial exit” strategies in respect to the nation stateUtilises approaches from classic urban sociology, globalization and mobility studies, and spatial class analysisIncludes in depth interviews, social networking techniques, and classic questions of political representation and values

Since its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century, industrial capitalism as a specific form of social organisation has set recurrent challenges to its own persistence, and until today, it has proved to be successful to develop new ways of accumulation based on its capacity of adaptation. Is this process of transition now accelerating or reaching an end point? This book is a critical exploration of capitalism in transition, bringing together cutting edge, world renowned scholars who reflect from different disciplinary points of view. This collection engages with the primarily Western themes of welfare capitalism and social fragmentation. Structured over three parts, the book analyses; the transformations of welfare societies and capitalism with a focus on South European welfare states and their (in)capacity to tackle poverty; the transformation of work and migration with a special attention to informality and the question of social rights; and the transformation of cities.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1, No poverty.