Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-196).
Changes in the class structure / Sebastian Herkommer -- Gender, individualism and social change / Jenny Ryan -- Class, cultural re-alignment and the rise of the populist right / Mark Elchardus -- Integration to disintegration? / Mike McGuinness -- Lean production / Sebastian Herkommer -- Industrial conflict / Gerrit van Kooten -- Schooling and social justice / Paul Littlewood and Ingrid Jönsson -- The fate of the 55-64 age group / Jan Petersson -- Basic income / Roswitha Pioch -- The additional use of social policy in the modernization and transformation of societies / Georg Vobruba