Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008

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Hannah Forsyth (Australian Catholic University, Sydney)

Virtue Capitalists

The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008

Hannah Forsyth (Australian Catholic University, Sydney)

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English

Cambridge University Press
21 September 2023

Economics & Business; Economic history

Virtue 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.

By: Hannah Forsyth (Australian Catholic University Sydney)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9781009206488
ISBN 10: 1009206486
Pages: 317
Publication Date: 21 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hannah Forsyth is a historian at the Australian Catholic University, Sydney. She was President of Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society 2020-1. Her first book was A History of the Modern Australian University (2014).