
The Sinking Middle Class
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Today's highly unequal US hardly qualifies as sustaining the middle class. The idea of the US as a middle class place required nurturing. Those doing that ideological work-from the business press, to pollsters, to intellectuals celebrating the results of free enterprise-gained little traction until the Depression and Cold War expanded the middle class brand.
Much later, the book's sections on liberal strategist Stanley Greenberg detail, "saving the middle class" entered presidential politics. Both parties soon defined the middle class to include over 90% of the population, precluding intelligent attention to the poor and the very rich. Resurrecting radical historical critiques of the middle class, Roediger argues that middle class identities have so long been shaped by debt, anxiety about falling, and having to sell one's personality at work that misery defines a middle class existence as much as fulfillment.
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Person
David Roediger teaches in American Studies, History, and African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas. His recent books include How Race Survived United States History and Class, Race, and Marxism.
Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Languages of Class and the Exhaustion of Political Imagination
- 2. The Pretenses of a Middle-Class United States
- 3. How the Left Has Lived with the Problem of the Middle Class
- 4. Falling, Misery, and the Impossibilities of Middle-Class Life
- 5. Middle-Class Votes: Stanley Greenberg, Democratic Neoliberalism, and the Rightward Drift of US Politics
- Afterword: Doubly Stuck: The Middle Class, the White Working Class, and the Crisis of US Neoliberalism
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover
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