The Development of Industrial Society in Ireland
Abstract
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? .The volume looks at the typicality or "exceptionalism" of the Irish experience, and critically examines its relevance for current theories of industrialism and "modernization"