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POINT OF VIEW
We need new ways of talking about class. The common belief that everyone in America is middle class makes no sense in a country that boasts some of the largest income disparities in the Western world. The Marxist model of class struggle between bourgeoisie and proletariat, still popular among some academics, simply fails to come to grips with...
Why Academics Don't Study the Lower Middle Class
By RITA FELSKIWe need new ways of talking about class. The common belief that everyone in America is middle class makes no sense in a country that boasts some of the largest income disparities in the Western world. The Marxist model of class struggle between bourgeoisie and proletariat, still popular among some academics, simply fails to come to grips with...
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