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Africa Spectrum, 2022 Since the early 21st century, the middle classes of the Global South became a focus of attention. However, a precarious minimum income was all it took to be considered middle class. But who exactly is middle class?
Henning Melber
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Middle classes: theoretical principles, contemporary working out, regarding the hired workers [PDF]
Экономика региона, 2014 The article deals with the problems of defining middle classes. Theoretical principles of social and class structures, including middle classes, are examined.
Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Bobkov +1 more
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La ilusión de una región de clases medias: el caso de Uruguay
Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2022 The expansion of middle-income sectors has, in recent years, drawn the attention of academia, international organizations, and governments. However, more recently, several studies have pointed to the vulnerability of these sectors.
María José Álvarez-Rivadulla +3 more
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Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2023 : Occupying children’s time has become as a challenge for the contemporary upbringing of urban middle-class families. A cultural manifestation of this phenomenon is the accelerated growth of extracurricular activities designed for this population group ...
Diana Marcela Aristizábal García +1 more
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Cinq femmes à distance de la lutte contre la réforme des retraites
La Nouvelle Revue du Travail, 2020 A winter 2019-2020 general strike opposing French pension system reforms did not translate into any real commitment to wider social conflict. This has raised a number of questions, leading to a group interview of five working- and middle-class women from
Camille Noûs
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Considering middle-classes in Latin America: An update of old debates
Íconos, 2022 The approaches to the middle classes that have been dominant in Latin American thought and that structure current academic debate form the analytical nucleus of this article.
Isabel Díaz
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What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes around the World? [PDF]
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007 We expect a lot from the middle classes. At least three distinct arguments about the special economic role of the middle class are traditionally made. In one, new entrepreneurs armed with a capacity and a tolerance for delayed gratification emerge from the middle class and create employment and productivity growth for the rest of society. In a second,
Banerjee, Abhijit, Duflo, Esther
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China’s Emerging Global Middle Class [PDF]
, 2020 Abstract This chapter examines China’s middle class by using CHIP data for 2002, 2007, and 2013. “Middle class” is defined as having income high enough not to be regarded as poor but not so high as to be regarded as rich if living in a high-income country.
Gustafsson, Björn +2 more
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Les classes moyennes dans les couronnes périurbaines : l’exemple de l’ouest de la région parisienne
Cybergeo, 2016 Paris region is confronted to an important phenomenon of social polarization. Periurban rings surrounding the city are today the only metropolitan areas in which mid-management jobs are the most numerous among active socio-professional group, although ...
Claire Aragau +2 more
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Fascism, Middle Class Ideals, and Holiday Villas at the 5th Milan Triennale [PDF]
The Open Arts Journal, 2014 With the diffusion of architectural modernism in the first couple decades of the twentieth-century, exposition pavilions presented new and daring forms, and tested structural possibilities and innovative materials. In some cases, the form and function of
Flavia Marcello
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