Philadelphia Gentlemen
Philadelphia Gentlemen

Author: E. Digby Baltzell

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-01

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 104028079X

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This is a classic study of Philadelphia’s business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations. It is also an analysis of how fabulously wealthy nineteenth-century family founders produced a national upper-class way of life. But as that way of life came to an end, the upper-class outlived its function; this, argues E. Digby Baltzell, is precisely what took place in the Philadelphia class system. For sociologists, historians, and those concerned with issues of culture and the economy, this is indeed a classic of modern social science.

A Review of Third Sector Research in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: 1990-2016
A Review of Third Sector Research in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: 1990-2016

Author: Jenny Onyx

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-11-06

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 9004355065

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This is the first comprehensive overview of third sector research in Australasia, prepared by leading researchers, Jenny Onyx in Australia and Garth Nowland-Foreman in Aotearoa New Zealand. It examines both the current state of knowledge of the sector and also the research infrastructure behind the sector. Part one documents the size and scope of the sector, as well as the development of the organisation ANZTSR and its journal. Part two examines relations with the state in each country, the rapid growth in funding services, but also effects of neo-liberal ideological and policy constraints. Part Three documents the current state of volunteering and philanthropy (giving) in both countries. Part Four examines the world of citizen action, building social capital within local communities, and also advocacy and political protest. The concluding Part Five examines some of the current developments in civil society, new emerging forms, and challenges for the future.