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Books on: affluent class

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Affluent Workers Revisited: Privatism and the Working Class

Book by Fiona Devine; Edinburgh University Press, 1992

Subjects:

Goldthorpe, John H, Leisure--England--Luton, Luton (England)--Economic Conditions, Luton (England)--Social Conditions, Working Class--England--Luton

Collections: Entire Library

...that members of the newly affluent working class did not share the same world...changed, in that the lower middle class and affluent working class enjoy similar...households could be described as affluent working-class while others were relatively...
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Middle Class Radicalism in Santa Monica

Book by Mark E. Kann; Temple University Press, 1986

Subjects:

Middle Class--California--Santa Monica--Case Studies, Radicalism--California--Santa Monica--History

Collections: Entire Library

...315 Preface Why would affluent, middle class citizens give an electoral...on its odd marriage between affluent middle class citizens and young radical...Monica is a city where the affluent middle class enjoys its success. A stereotyped...
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State-Led Modernization and the New Middle Class in Malaysia

Book by Abdul Rahman Embong; Palgrave, 2002

Subjects:

Civil Society--Malaysia, Democratization--Malaysia, Middle Class--Malaysia

Collections: History, Entire Library

Rich in detail and lucidly written, this is the first comprehensive study of the new middle class in Malaysia. Abdul Rhaman Embong examines the emergence and role of the new Malay middle class, particularly with regard to democratization and evolution of civil society in Malaysia. The author ...
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Rich in detail and lucidly written, this is the first comprehensive study of the new middle class in Malaysia. Abdul Rhaman Embong examines the emergence and role of the new Malay middle class, particularly with regard to democratization and evolution of civil society in Malaysia. The author explores variations within the class across the country,andralso draws comparisons with the Malay working class, and the middle classes of China, India, and elsewhere in Asia.
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Women of the Upper Class

Book by Susan A. Ostrander; Temple University Press, 1984

Subjects:

Married Women--United States--Case Studies, Upper Class--United States--Case Studies

Collections: Entire Library

Women of the Upper Class Women in the Political Economy, a series...Ronnie J. Steinberg Women of the Upper Class Susan A. Ostrander TEMPLE UNIVERSITY...Ostrander, Susan A. Women of the upper class. Women in the political economy Bibliography...
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Class and Its Others

Book by Amitava Kumar; University of Minnesota Press, 2000

Subjects:

Communism And Society, Social Classes, Working Class--Economic Conditions, Working Class--Social Conditions

Collections: Entire Library

...employ an anti-essentialist class analysis to help map out the...labor. And in those increasingly affluent households in the North, the...domestic labor in a noncapitalist class process is problematized only...denied access to capitalist class relations.3 Multiple oppressions...

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Journal Articles on: affluent class

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Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement

Journal article by Beatrice L. Bridglall; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 91, 2006

Subjects:

Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...John Ogbu, Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement...average (GPA), standardized test scores, and class rank is that African American, Latino...badly. In Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement...
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GENDER AND WORKING CLASS IDENTITY IN BRITAIN DURING THE 1950s

Journal article by Stephen Brooke; Journal of Social History, Vol. 34, 2001

Subjects:

Employment discrimination--Social aspects, Sex discrimination against women--1950, Working class--History, Working mothers--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...surfeit of wages in the affluent 1950s, the power...femininity in working class life, with different...persistence of working class political and economic...ideological dream-world of affluent societies, embourgeoisement...Zweig, The Worker in Affluent Society, p. 208...Young, Family and Class in A London Suburb...
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Adapting Stella Dallas: Class Boundaries, Consumerism, and Hierarchies of Taste

Journal article by Jennifer Parchesky; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 23, 2006

Subjects:

Consumer advocacy--Analysis, Consumerism--Analysis, Prouty, Olive Higgins--Works, Social class--Analysis, Social classes--Analysis, Stella Dallas (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the film for more affluent audiences by distinguishing...time, these high-class associations gave...Stella, enabling less affluent audiences to confront...hidden injuries of class" at a safer distance...gaining ground among affluent flappers by 1924...distance from middle-class respectability. 11...
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The Cultural Turn and a New Social History: Folk Dance and the Renovation of Class in Social History

Journal article by Daniel J. Walkowitz; Journal of Social History, Vol. 39, 2006

Subjects:

Folk dancing--Analysis, Folk dancing--Social aspects, Social class--Analysis, Social classes--Analysis, Social history--Analysis, Social sciences and history--Analysis

Collections: History, Entire Library

...York in 1915: the class composition had...and urbane, from affluent suburbs and urban...Were a pretty affluent group of people...lily-white, middle-class, urbanized Americans...inhabit a distinctive class sector, affluent yet not quite elite...
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Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life

Journal article by Richard Glotzer; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 36, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...collar workers rather than affluent suburban families. Lareaus...activities of poor and working class children are more differentiated...perhaps more so than for their affluent counterparts. Unequal Childhoods...Mosiac: An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada, Toronto...

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Magazine Articles on: affluent class

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To the Manor Bought: The Inexorable Growth of the British Suburb Is the Result of an Increasingly Affluent Middle Class Striving to Acquire Its Own Piece of the Countryside

Magazine article by Chris Edwards; Geographical, Vol. 76, May 2004

Subjects:

Middle class--Social aspects, Middle classes--Social aspects, Suburbs--History, Suburbs--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...the Result of an Increasingly Affluent Middle Class Striving to Acquire Its Own Piece...4 hectares). The upper-middle-class owners could feel that they were...their homes. They have become the affluent land owners trying to fend off...
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'Thatcherism's Triumph Was Double-Edged. Union Militancy Pushed Large Sections of the Middle Class to the Right. Now Unions Threaten No One and the Main Threat to Middle-Class Interests Comes from the Rich': The Divide Is Deepening in Britain between Those Who Are Told They Are Affluent and Those Who Really Are. Nick Cohen Points to a Society in Which, Thanks to This Government, Only the Super-Rich Feel Truly at Ease

Magazine article by Nick Cohen; New Statesman, Vol. 135, March 20, 2006

Subjects:

Authors--Works, Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism and interpretation, Hawes, James--Works, Literary characters--Criticism and interpretation, Middle class--Portrayals, Middle classes--Portrayals, Proletariat--Portrayals, Working class in television--Portrayals, Working class--Portrayals, Writers--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and the Main Threat to Middle-Class Interests Comes from the Rich...between Those Who Are Told They Are Affluent and Those Who Really Are. Nick...by Nick Cohen Middle-class hatred of the upper class used to erupt regularly in Britain...
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America's Forgotten Majority: Forget the "Soccer Mom." the New White Working Class Is the Key to Twenty-First-Century Politics, but Neither Party Has Found a Way to Mobilize It Effectively

Magazine article by Joel Rogers, Ruy Teixeira; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, June 2000

Subjects:

Political culture--United States, United States--Political aspects, Working class--United States

Collections: Entire Library

...New White Working Class Is the Key to Twenty-First-Century...these days are affluent white mothers...terms of culture, class, and history--from...highly educated and affluent citizens. But what...Substantially more affluent than their working-class counterparts, these...
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The Anxious Society: Middle-Class Insecurity and the Crisis of the American Dream

Magazine article by Charles J. Whalen; The Humanist, Vol. 56, September 1996

Subjects:

Downsizing (Management)--Economic aspects, Economic development--Political aspects, Middle class--Economic aspects, Middle classes--Economic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...insecurity for most U.S. citizens. Middle-class Americans saw themselves as part of the "affluent society" of the 1950s and 1960s, but that...and worked to unite the poor, the middle-class, and the affluent. Yet another obstacle is the fact that...
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Are We Still a Middle-Class Nation? It's No Accident That the United States Has Always Been an Economic Paradise for the Middle Class-That Class Was Invented and Reinvented by the Government. Now the Government Needs to Reinvent It Again-Before It's Too Late

Magazine article by Michael Lind; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 293, January 2004

Subjects:

Croly, Herbert David--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Economic conditions--Analysis, Economic conditions--Social aspects, Middle class--Economic aspects, Middle class--History, Middle class--Social aspects, Middle classes, Middle classes--Economic aspects, Middle classes--History, Middle classes--Social aspects, United States--Economic aspects, United States--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...prohibitively expensive for all but the affluent. Higher wages produced by a...services. THE NEXT MIDDLE CLASS If we reject both a new feudalism...added to these, so that middle-class Americans--not merely an affluent minority--might derive income...

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Newspaper Articles on: affluent class

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MIDDLE-CLASS WARFARE; Why Do So Many Children from Good Homes and Affluent Backgrounds Turn to Gangs and Violence?

Newspaper article by Donna White Investigation; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), May 19, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

MIDDLE-CLASS WARFARE; Why Do So Many Children from Good Homes and Affluent Backgrounds Turn to Gangs and Violence? by DONNA WHITE Investigation Set against the breathtaking backdrop of Holyrood...
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Middle Class a Step Too Far for Many 'Deluded' Workers

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 21, 2008

Subjects:

Middle class, Middle classes

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...15,000 a year - well below the national average. Birmingham was said to have among the highest proportion of affluent "working class" people and is among the least socially aspirational cities in the UK, with relatively low levels of personal...
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Sea, Naples.And Homes to Die for; Opulence Is Obvious ...the Taste dubiousThe Affluent Alternative to Brash Miami ... a Resort That Lures Celebs and Golf Fanatics Alike

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 13, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...admitted. Instead, Naples, Florida, is an attractive and very affluent community of large houses set in leafy streets that stretch...centre of the community is a Ritz-Carlton hotel, which adds class, and the golf course around which the houses are dotted was...
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Viewing the Affluent as a Resource

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 31, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Viewing the affluent as a resource...Designed to foment class envy and conflict...proletariat, or working class, in relationship...whom are among the affluent, often propagate...demands of the middle-class and the wealthy drive...of only the more affluent consumer. The more...
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Smashing Win: Williams Coasted to Victory, Thanks to Affluent Wards

Newspaper article by Ronald J. Hansen; The Washington Times, September 17, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Williams campaign was strongest in the predominantly white and affluent voters in Ward 3. The ward had the highest turnout, with...and 5 - the citys battleground for black middle- and working-class votes - Mr. Williams nearly matched Mr. Chavous. Mr. Williams...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: affluent class

3 results

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Rome , City, Italy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...lasted four centuries. The patrician class controlled the government, but the plebs...aspects beyond the control of the ruling class. It remains true, however, that it was...benefit not of Rome but of the senatorial class; enormous wealth (by graft and by trade...
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Washington, D.C

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...services and programs, stimulating the economy, retaining a middle-class presence, and transferring prison and other costly operations...steadily since the 1950s; much of the outmigration has been to affluent suburbs in Virginia and Maryland. In Apr., 1968, the assassination...
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France

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Revolution and Napoleon I, H. Taine , A. Aulard , G. Lefebvre , A. Mathiez , and F. Masson ; for the history of the working class and of commerce, E. Levasseur ; for cultural history, A. Rambaud . See also A. Cobban, A History of Modern France (3d...

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