This book provides a comprehensive portrait of class structure, dynamics, and orientations in Singapore--understood as a new nation, a capitalist and emerging knowledge economy, a largely middle-class society, and a polity with a strong state--at the turn of the new millennium. It introduces a wide array of recent data on a broad range of topics relating to social stratification in Singapore: class structure, political participation, political alienation, national pride, welfarism, success values, unionism, social mobility, the digital divide, and the sandwich generation. To capture the lived...