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

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

Middle-class households feel left behind and have questioned the benefits of economic globalisation.

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

After decades of stagnation, the size of Latin America's middle class recently expanded to the point where, for the first time ever, the number of people in pov