Titlebook: Understanding Contemporary Ireland; State, Class and Dev Richard Breen,Damian F. Hannan,Christopher T. Whel Book 1990 Richard Breen, Damian

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,Introduction: The Transformation of Ireland’s Social Structure,g given Ireland’s image as a rural, conservative and Catholic backwater of post-war Europe. Moreover, there was substance to the image. The first 40 years of independence — from the 1920s to the 1960s — were notable for institutional continuity rather than change, and for an isolation which, by 1950

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The Transformation of the Class Structure: Occupations, Opportunities and Occupants,r self-employment as labourers — agricultural and non-agricultural — contracted; massive growth occurred in professional and technical employment and in skilled manual labour. The broad outline of the resulting transformation is familiar, experienced by most core and semi-peripheral societies. It is

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The State and the Distribution and Redistribution of Income, change had displaced. Prosperity brought an improved standard of living to the fortunate occupants of positions in the State bureaucracy, manufacturing industry and the services. At the same time, the zeal with which politicians and the public embraced the idea of a Welfare State ensured that those

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State, Class and Family,ly defined by the Catholic Church, not the State. A series of constitutional and legislative provisions ignored, by and large, the viewpoints of minority religions and meticulously implemented the values of conservative Catholic social thinking, within which the family is the basic unit of society (

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Industrial Relations and the State,ued in Ireland. Free trade and the heavy reliance on attracting foreign investment made it imperative to maintain stable industrial relations and wage competitiveness (Hardiman, 1986; Roche 1982; Stanton, 1979) and in these respects, the traditional role of the State in industrial relations could no

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The Ebbing Tide,eland. In doing so we have concentrated on how that relationship has been shaped, and how it has been reflected in particular areas within Ireland’s economy and social structure. Our analysis is intended to contribute to the growing body of work which seeks to improve our understanding of the circum