ABSTRACT
What are the social, cultural, and political implications of the mostly economic transformations that were discussed in the previous chapter—the postindustrial, the bourgeois, and the consumerist revolutions? This chapter continues where the previous one left off and investigates the implications of globalization on Israeli social structure and political culture. These implications are tackled by focusing on three social class categories: the middle classes, the business elite, and the laboring classes. As in the previous chapter, the aim here is not to provide an overall account of the scene but rather to offer a symptomatic reading of those novel developments that reshape Israeli social structure and political consciousness since the 1990s.
