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Author : Stuart M. Blumin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1989-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521376122
This book traces the emergence of the recongnizable 'middle class' from the 1760-1900.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264150348
Middle-class households feel left behind and have questioned the benefits of economic globalisation.
Author : Lawrence R Samuel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134624683
The middle class is often viewed as the heart of American society, the key to the country’s democracy and prosperity. Most Americans believe they belong to this group, and few politicians can hope to be elected without promising to serve the middle class. Yet today the American middle class is increasingly seen as under threat. In The American Middle Class: A Cultural History, Lawrence R. Samuel charts the rise and fall of this most definitive American population, from its triumphant emergence in the post-World War II years to the struggles of the present day. Between the 1920s and the 1950s, powerful economic, social, and political factors worked together in the U.S. to forge what many historians consider to be the first genuine mass middle class in history. But from the cultural convulsions of the 1960s, to the 'stagflation' of the 1970s, to Reaganomics in the 1980s, this segment of the population has been under severe stress. Drawing on a rich array of voices from the past half-century, The American Middle Class explores how the middle class, and ideas about it, have changed over time, including the distinct story of the black middle class. Placing the current crisis of the middle class in historical perspective, Samuel shows how the roots of middle-class troubles reach back to the cultural upheaval of the 1960s. The American Middle Class takes a long look at how the middle class has been winnowed away and reveals how, even in the face of this erosion, the image of the enduring middle class remains the heart and soul of the United States.
Author : Cheng Li
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815704058
Decades ago, there was no distinct middle class in the People's Republic of China. Any meaningful discussion of China's economy, politics, or society must take into account the rapid emergence and explosive growth of the Chinese middle class. This book details the origins and characteristics of this dramatic change.
Author : Mary P. Ryan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0521274036
Winner of the 1981 Bancroft Prize. Focusing primarily on the middle class, this study delineates the social, intellectual and psychological transformation of the American family from 1780-1865. Examines the emergence of the privatized middle-class family with its sharp division of male and female roles.
Author : A. Ricardo López
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822351290
The contributors question the current academic understanding of what is known as the global middle class. They see middle-class formation as transnational and they examine this group through the lenses of economics, gender, race, and religion from the mid-nineteenth century to today.
Author : Christina J. Hodge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107034396
This study examines the emergence of the middle class and consumerism in colonial America.
Author : Christof Dejung,David Motadel,Jürgen Osterhammel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691195834
This essay collection presents a global history of the middle class and its rise around the world during the age of empire. It compares middle-class formation in various regions, highlighting differences and similarities, and assesses the extent to which bourgeois growth was tied to the increasing exchange of ideas and goods and was a result of international connections and entanglements. Grouped by theme, the book shows how bourgeois values can shape the liberal world order.
Author : Peter Temin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262535298
Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor and how racism helped bring this about. The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middle class. Temin argues that American history and politics, particularly slavery and its aftermath, play an important part in the widening gap between rich and poor. Temin employs a well-known, simple model of a dual economy to examine the dynamics of the rich/poor divide in America, and outlines ways to work toward greater equality so that America will no longer have one economy for the rich and one for the poor. Many poorer Americans live in conditions resembling those of a developing country—substandard education, dilapidated housing, and few stable employment opportunities. And although almost half of black Americans are poor, most poor people are not black. Conservative white politicians still appeal to the racism of poor white voters to get support for policies that harm low-income people as a whole, casting recipients of social programs as the Other—black, Latino, not like "us." Politicians also use mass incarceration as a tool to keep black and Latino Americans from participating fully in society. Money goes to a vast entrenched prison system rather than to education. In the dual justice system, the rich pay fines and the poor go to jail.
Author : Christof Dejung,David Motadel,Jürgen Osterhammel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691177342
This essay collection presents a global history of the middle class and its rise around the world during the age of empire. It compares middle-class formation in various regions, highlighting differences and similarities, and assesses the extent to which bourgeois growth was tied to the increasing exchange of ideas and goods and was a result of international connections and entanglements. Grouped by theme, the book shows how bourgeois values can shape the liberal world order.
Author : John Wade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:600042212
Author : David Stuart Parker,Louise E. Walker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780739168530
As middle classes in developing countries grow in size and political power, do they foster stable democracies and prosperous, innovative economies? Or do they encourage crass materialism, bureaucratic corruption, unrealistic social demands, and ideological polarization? These questions have taken on a new urgency in recent years but they are not new, having first appeared in the mid twentieth century in debates about Latin America. At a moment when exploding middle classes in the global South increasingly capture the world's attention, these Latin American classics are ripe for revisiting. Part One of the book introduces key debates from the 1950s and 1960s, when Cold War era scholars questioned whether or not the middle class would be a force for democracy and development, to safeguard Latin America against the perceived challenge of Revolutionary Cuba. While historian John J. Johnson placed tentative faith in the positive transformative power of the "middle sectors," others were skeptical. The striking disagreements that emerge from these texts lend themselves to discussion about the definition, character, and complexity of the middle classes, and about the assumptions that underpinned twentieth-century modernization theory. Part Two brings together more recent case studies from Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina, written by scholars influenced by contemporary trends in social and cultural history. These authors highlight issues of language, identity, gender, and the multiple faces and forms of power. Their studies bring flesh-and-blood Latin Americans to the forefront, reconstructing the daily lives of underpaid office workers, harried housewives and striving professionals, in order to revisit questions that the authors in Part One tended to approach abstractly. They also pay attention to changing cultural understandings and political constructions of who "the middle class" is and what it means to be middle class. Designed with the classroom and non-specialist reader in mind, the book has a comprehensive critical introduction, and each selection is preceded by a short description setting the context and introducing key themes.
Author : Burton J. Bledstein,Robert D. Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135289430
According to their national myth, all Americans are "middle class," but rarely has such a widely-used term been so poorly defined. These fascinating essays provide much-needed context to the subject of class in America.
Author : Christina J. Hodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Consumer behavior
ISBN : 113991054X
This study examines the emergence of the middle class and consumerism in colonial America.
Author : Jason Sumich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472883
Introduction -- Origins -- Asendance -- Collapse -- Democracy -- Decay -- 2016, concluding thoughts