This volume delves into the study of the world’s emerging middle class. With essays on Europe, the United States, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, the book st

This volume examines the discursive construction of the meanings and lifestyle practices of the middle class in the rapidly transforming economies of Asia, Lati

A better future for the middle class is no longer an aspiration. It is a necessity. The disintegration of the American Dream is more visible than ever before. T

The middle class of our society has an important roleacting as the glue that holds the upper and lower classes together. But what will happen if the middle clas

The middle class is the most successful group in world history. Sometime before 2030 the fifth billionth person will join the middle class. What started a littl