Middle Class: An Intellectual History through Social Sciences: An American Fetish from its Origins to Globalization

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Matteo Battistini offers a critical deconstruction of the fetish of the middle class. Social sciences strive to transform an image of labour and capital as opposing forces into a consensual order wherein capitalism and democracy could coexist without tension. Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 The Middle Class between History and Social Sciences 1 The (Lower) English Middle Class 2 Bourgeoisie and Classe Moyenne 3 Mittelstand and Neuer Mittelstand 4 Crossing the Atlantic Chapter 2 The American Middle Class: A Taken-for-Granted History? 1 The Middle Class as a Historiographic Category 2 The Middle Class as a Sociological Problem 3 The Middle Class of Progressivism 4 Brain Workers of the World, Unite! Chapter 3 The Middle Class as Historical Project 1 The Demiurge of the Middle Class 2 The New Deal for the Middle Class 3 The Crisis of the Middle Class 4 The Ideological Battle for the Middle Class 5 The Middle Class as Political Concept Chapter 4 The Rise and Fall of a Fetish 1 The Middle Class of Liberalism 2 The Movement against the Middle Class 3 The New Class of Neoconservatism (and Neoliberalism) 4 The Middle Class as a Figure of the Crisis (in Globalisation) References Index