Guilluy, Christophe
Twilight of the Elite: The Prosperous, the Periphery, and the Future of France
- ISBN 13:
- 9780300233766
- author:
- Guilluy, Christophe
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- Yale University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 144 mm X 218 mm
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Poverty
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
A passionate account of how France's metropolitan elites and working classes are tearing the country apart. Christophe Guilluy argues that France has become an "American society" - increasingly multicultural but also increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France has replaced the old left-right split, leaving many on the periphery. Those cut off from the country's new economic citadels suffer disproportionately on both economic and social fronts. Guilluy contends that the idea of an "open society" in France is a smoke screen meant to hide the emergence of a closed society, walled off for the benefit of the upper classes. Without the stability of a growing economy, the hope for those excluded from growth is extinguished, undermining the legitimacy of a multicultural nation.
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