Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 79

The Development of Industrial Society in Ireland

edited by J H Goldthorpe & C T Whelan

Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press

1992 (from 2007, manufactured on demand)

234 ×156 mm; 476 pages; 41 figures
hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-726120-0
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This highly acclaimed volume discusses an aspect of Irish society that has been inadequately covered elsewhere.

Ireland is one of the nations of the western world in which industrialization was longest delayed. In these 16 papers, sociologists, economists and political scientists offer ?rich and original insights into how Irish society has developed, particularly over the last 30 years? (Irish Times).

The volume looks at the typicality or ?exceptionalism? of the Irish experience, and critically examines its relevance for current theories of industrialism and ?modernization?.

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including an option to download PDF files of particular articles

“The mix of timeliness and historical perspective, high quality data, sophisticated analysis of that data, and unified perspective produces a volume that is nothing short of outstanding.”
Economic and Social Review

“The uniformly high standard of the contributions to this book, and the clarity with which they are argued, will mean that chapters from it will be assigned as reading to advanced undergraduates.”
Irish Journal of Sociology