The middle class in world society : negotiations, diversities and lived experiences

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of tables List of figures List of contributors Foreword Preface and acknowledgements 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 16 Understanding the middle class’s engagement with social activism: an enquiry into emerging trends and challenges 17 Social benefits of reservation: mapping social mobility and the ‘paying back’ tendency among the middle class 18 Social mobility and class in Africa Index