10% off all books and free delivery over £40
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

We Have Never Been Middle Class

View All Editions

The selected edition of this book is not available to buy right now.
Add To Wishlist
Write A Review Look Inside

About

We Have Never Been Middle Class Synopsis

Tidings of a shrinking middle class in one part of the world and its expansion in another absorb our attention, but seldom do we question the category itself. We Have Never Been Middle Class proposes that the middle class is an ideology. Tracing this ideology up to the age of financialisation, it exposes the fallacy in the belief that we can all ascend or descend as a result of our aspirational and precautionary investments in property and education. Ethnographic accounts from Germany, Israel, the United States and elsewhere illustrate how this belief orients us, in our private lives as much as in our politics, toward accumulation-enhancing yet self-undermining goals. This meshing of anthropology and critical theory elucidates capitalism by way of its archetypal actors.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9781788733915
Publication date: 29th October 2019
Author: Hadas Weiss
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 176 pages
Genres: Social classes
Social mobility
Popular culture
Political economy