Dwayne Monroe wrote:
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> All of this adds up to that curious combination of
> (ever less) disposable income and status insecurity
> which characterizes middle class life in early century
> 21 America.
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I would say, "All of this adds up to that curious combination of (ever less) disposable income and status insecurity which characterizes [WORKING] class life in early century 21 America."
It always was part of the working class, but 'romantic' views of the "working class" as brawny white males in blue shirts [in practice usually checked sportshirts] and dirty fingernails provided a point of departure for the (temporary) triumph of sociological "stratification theory" (even among marxists) over marxian undrstanding of class.
Carrol