The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right Roediger David
The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right Roediger David The Sinking Middle Classchallenges the "savethe middle class" rhetoric that dominates our…
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The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right Roediger David
The Sinking Middle Classchallenges the "savethe middle class" rhetoric that dominates our political imagination. Talk of middle class salvation reinforces myths holding that the US is a providentially middle class nation. The slogan misleads us regarding class, nation, and race.
Roediger shows how little the US has been a middle class nation. Implicitly white, the middle class becomes viewed as unheard amidst supposed concerns for racial justice and for the poor. The term seldom appeared in US writing before 1900.
Many white Americans were self-employed, but this social experience separated them from the contemporary middle class of today, overwhelmingly employed and surveilled.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,