{"product_id":"virtue-capitalists-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-professional-class-in-the-anglophone-world-1870-2008-paperback-softback-9781009206457","title":"Virtue Capitalists; The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009206457","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVirtue Capitalists\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn ambitious study of the making of the professional middle class in the Anglophone world from c.1870 to 2008.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHannah Forsyth (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009206457, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 May 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'There are dozens of books trying to answer some of the same questions by offering a history of the economic and class stresses of the present. Forsyth's work is among the most compelling, offering concrete examples and a set of hypotheses for other scholars to debate and test.' Toby Harper, American Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eVirtue Capitalists explores the rise of the professional middle class across the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. With a focus on British settler colonies – Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States – Hannah Forsyth argues that the British middle class structured old forms of virtue into rapidly expanding white-collar professional work, needed to drive both economic and civilizational expansion across their settler colonies. They invested that virtue to produce social and economic profit. This virtue became embedded in the networked Anglophone economy so that, by the mid twentieth century, the professional class ruled the world in alliance with managers whose resources enabled the implementation of virtuous strategies. Since morality and capital had become materially entangled, the 1970s economic crisis also presented a moral crisis for all professions, beginning a process whereby the interests of expert and managerial workers separated and began to actively compete.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction: capitalism, class, and virtue\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Professionalizing the Anglo Economy, c.1870-1945: 2. Civilizing capitalism\u003cbr\u003e 3. Achieving class\u003cbr\u003e 4. From bourgeois to professional\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Managing the Global Economy, c.1945–1975\u003cbr\u003e 5. Angels of the state\u003cbr\u003e 6. Classy work\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The New Class Conflict c.1975–2008: 7. Moral crisis\u003cbr\u003e 8. Success is the only virtue\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: contours of the new class conflict.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economic history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economic history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economic%20history%20%5BKCZ%5D%22\"\u003eKCZ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52501091582232,"sku":"9781009206457","price":26.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009206457i.jpg?v=1786209656","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/virtue-capitalists-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-professional-class-in-the-anglophone-world-1870-2008-paperback-softback-9781009206457","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}