The Development of Industrial Society in Ireland

Introduction ; The Context of Economic Development ; Problems of Industrialisation in Ireland ; The Demographic Transition in Ireland in International Context ; The Significance of Small-Scale Landholders in Ireland's Socio-economic Transformation ; Industrialisation, Class Formation and Social Mobility in Ireland ; Explaining the Irish Pattern of Social Fluidity: The Role of the Political ; Change in Intragenerational Mobility in the Republic of Ireland ; Income Distribution and Redistribution: Ireland in Comparative Perspective ; The Irish Welfare State in Comparative Perspective ; Catholicism and Industrial Society in Ireland ; Social and Religious Transformation in Ireland: A Case of Secularization? ; The Liberal Theory of Industrialism and the Development of Industrial Relations in Ireland ; The State and Economic Interests: Ireland in Comparative Perspective ; Are Irish Parties Peculiar? ; Explaining the Absence of Class Politics in Ireland ; The Theory of Industrialism and the Irish Case ; Bibliography ; Index