Title: Social change in Southeast Asia /
Authors: Schmidt, Johannes Dragsbaek, 1960-; Hersh, Jacques.; Fold, Niels.
Publisher: Longman,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Social change Southeast Asia.; Southeast Asia Social conditions.
Contents: Introduction: Changing realities of social transition in Southeast Asia / Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt, Jacques Hersh and Niels Fold -- Pt. 1. The internal and external dynamics of social conflict in Southeast Asia. 1. The impact of US strategy: making Southeast Asia safe for capitalism / Jacques Hersh. 2. The custodian state and social change -- creating growth without welfare / Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt. 3. The emergence of the middle classes in Southeast Asia and the Indonesian case / Richard Robison -- Pt. 2. Classes, culture and political legitimation. 4. Class, culture and Malaysian modernity / Joel S. Kahn. 5. The legitimacy of the public sphere and culture of the new urban middle class in the Philippines / Niels Mulder. 6. Ethnicity, class and human resource management in Singapore / David Drakakis-Smith