Social Change in Western Europe

What do European societies look like, at the end of a turbulent millennium which saw western Europe slowly rise to global domination, and then rapidly decline to its present position, prosperous but clearly behind the USA in world influence? This is the only book by a single sociologist to make a systematic and up to date comparison of virtually all west European countries in relation to Japan and the USA, and across a wide range of social institutions, from work and economy to gender and the family.