The middle class in world society : negotiations, diversities and lived experiences/ by Christian Suter (Editor), S. Madheswaran (Editor), B. P. Vani (Editor) - 1st ed. - New York: Routledge, 2020 - xix, 379 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

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


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