Tag Archives: Middle class

Towards a New Political Economy of India: the Formation of Rural Middle Classes

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Oleg Komlik

by Maryam Aslany* For observers of the developing world, the ‘middle class’ has become a key category of economic analysis and forecasting. The discussion suffers, however, from a major oversight, since it assumes that the middle class is exclusively urban. … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Community members posts | Tagged agriculture, cultural capital, India, labor, liberalization, Middle class, stratification | Leave a comment

Unpaid Labor and the Neoliberal Myth of Meritocracy

Posted on August 2, 2016 by Oleg Komlik

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 →

Posted in Books, Name and Shame | Tagged inequality, labor, Middle class, neoliberalism, precariat | 2 Comments

The middle class and the politics of the rearguard

Posted on September 5, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

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 →

Posted in Books | Tagged bureaucracy, C. Wright Mills, capitalism, Middle class, politics, United States | 2 Comments

Globalised Minds, Roots in the City: Urban Upper-Middle Classes in Europe

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

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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Noam Chomsky on neoliberal semantics: “working class” vs. “middle class”

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

“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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Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

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 →