Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction

Part 1. Growth and Decline of the Middle Class: Global, Regional and Local Dynamics

2. A Global Middle Class Is More Promise than Reality

3. European Middle Class under Threat: Trends and Root Causes

4. Diversity of Capitalisms and the Growth of the Middle Classes in Asia and Latin America

5. The Poverty of the ‘Middle Classing’ of Development: Key Problems in Southern Africa

6. Marriage, Household Composition, Class Status by Nativity for Women of Color: 1980-2014

7. Urban Decline, Public Sector Contraction and the Experiences of Middle-Income African Americans: Using Detroit as a Case Study for Future Research

Part 2. Locating the Middle Class 8. The Simplified Assumptions of the Global Middle Class Narrative Glocal Middle-Income Groups in Kenya

9. Theorizing Subaltern Middle Classes

10. An Absent Asset-Based Black American Middle Class: The Iterative Role of Hard Work, Education, and Intergenerational Poverty

11. Understanding the Burgeoning Indian Middle Class through its Expenditure and Asset-Ownership Patterns

12. What has happened to the Middle Class? Incomes and Perceived Social Position Dynamics in Different Countries

Part 3: Lived Middle Class Experience

13. Framing India's New Middle Class Politics of Lifestyle in the Globalisation Era

14. Exploring the ‘Lived’ Middle Class: Everyday Experiences, Anxieties, and Adjustments

15. Insecurity and Anxiety of the Chinese Middle Class