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A Nation of Shopkeepers - The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie (Paperback, New edition)
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A Nation of Shopkeepers - The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie (Paperback, New edition)
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The petty bourgeoisie - the insecure class between the working
class and the bourgeoisie - is hugely significant within global
politics. Yet it remains something of a mystery. Initially
identified as a powerful political force by theorists like Marx and
Poulantzas, the petit-bourgeoisie was expected to decline, as small
businesses and small property were gradually swallowed up by
monopoly capitalism. Yet, far from disappearing, structural changes
to the global economy under neoliberalism have instead grown the
petty bourgeoisie, and the individualist values associated with it
have been popularized by a society which fetishizes "aspiration",
home ownership and entrepreneurship. So why has this happened? A
Nation of Shopkeepers sheds a light on this mysterious class,
exploring the class structure of contemporary Britain and the
growth of the petty bourgeoisie following Thatcherism. It shows how
the rise of home ownership, small landlordism and radical changes
to the world of work have increasingly inculcated values of petty
bourgeois individualism; how popular culture has promoted and
reproduced values of aspiration and conspicuous consumption that
militate against socialist organizing; and, most importantly, what
the unstoppable rise of the petit-bourgeoisie means for the left.
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