The contributors question the current academic understanding of what is known as the global middle class. They see middle-class formation as transnational and t

How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the grade How did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of t

The Sinking Middle Class challenges the “save the middle class” rhetoric that dominates our political imagination. The slogan misleads us regarding class, n

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 r

This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which