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Unpaid Labor and the Neoliberal Myth of Meritocracy
Several months ago, a British columnist James Bloodworth published his first book The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working Class Jobs. The main thesis of the book is precisely reflected in its title: it discusses the neoliberal false … Continue reading
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Tagged inequality, labor, Middle class, neoliberalism, precariat
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The middle class and the politics of the rearguard
White Collar: The American Middle Classes is a pioneering and major study of the American middle class by a prominent sociologist C. Wright Mills, first published in 1951. In this research Mills analyzes the forming of a new class of the white-collar workers … Continue reading
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Tagged bureaucracy, C. Wright Mills, capitalism, Middle class, politics, United States
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Globalised Minds, Roots in the City: Urban Upper-Middle Classes in Europe
A new interesting book Globalised Minds, Roots in the City: Urban Upper-middle Classes in Europe explores and reveals the role of urban upper-middle classes in the transformations experienced by contemporary European post-national societies. The findings of this research may surprise and intrigue. … Continue reading
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Tagged Europe, globalization, glocalization, Middle class, urban sociology
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Noam Chomsky on neoliberal semantics: “working class” vs. “middle class”
“The business classes are very class-conscious—they’re constantly fighting a bitter class war to improve their power and diminish opposition. Occasionally this is recognized. We don’t use the term “working class” here [ in the U.S] because it’s a taboo term. … Continue reading
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Tagged capital, class, inequality, interest groups, Middle class, neoliberalism, Unions
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Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries
This book pays special attention to the middle class, a segment often not addressed in inequality literature. (Free access to the foreword, introduction and appendices) Written by leading scholars in the field of economic inequality, all 17 chapters in this volume … Continue reading
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Tagged employment, income, inequality, Middle class, neoliberalism, politics
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Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940
Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940 by Vanessa May is an interesting analysis of domestic worker activism and cultural values attached to public and private space. But essentially, this excellent book is about failures: the failure of imagination … Continue reading
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Tagged gender, labor, Middle class, social history, United States, welfare
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