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Sinking Middle Class - A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right (Hardcover)
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Sinking Middle Class - A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right (Hardcover)
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The Sinking Middle Class challenges the “save the middle
class” rhetoric that dominates our political imagination. The
slogan misleads us regarding class, nation, and race. Talk of
middle class salvation reinforces myths holding that the US is a
providentially middle class nation. Implicitly white, the middle
class becomes viewed as unheard amidst supposed concerns for racial
justice and for the poor. Roediger shows how little the US has been
a middle class nation. 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, to
pollsters, to intellectuals celebrating the results of free
enterprise—gained little traction until the Depression and Cold
War expanded the middle class brand. Much later, the book’s
sections on liberal strategist Stanley Greenberg detail, “saving
the middle class” entered presidential politics. Both parties
soon defined the middle class to include over 90% of the
population, precluding intelligent attention to the poor and the
very rich. Resurrecting radical historical critiques of the middle
class, Roediger argues that middle class identities have so long
been shaped by debt, anxiety about falling, and having to sell
one’s personality at work that misery defines a middle class
existence as much as fulfillment.
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