Sinking middle class : a political history of debt, misery, and the drift to the right

The Sinking Middle Class challenges the "save the middle class" rhetoric that dominates our political imagination. The slogan misleads us regarding class, nation, and race. Talk of middle class salvation reinforces myths holding that the US is a providentially middle class nation. Implicit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Roediger, David R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2022.
Edition:Revised second edition.
Subjects:
Middle class > United States > History.
Classes moyennes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Economic history
Middle class
Politics and government
Social conditions
United States > Social conditions > History.
United States > Politics and government > History.
United States > Economic conditions > History.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Histoire.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > Histoire.
États-Unis > Conditions économiques > Histoire.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Languages of class and the exhaustion of political imagination
  • The pretenses of middle-class United States
  • How the left has lived with the problem of the middle class
  • Falling, misery, and the impossibilities of middle-class life
  • Middle-class votes : Stanley Greenberg, Democratic neoliberalism, and the rightward drift of US politics
  • Afterward : Doubly stuck : the middle class, white working class, and the crisis of US neoliberalism.

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