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The Missing Middle
The making of the English middle class
The emergence of the middle class
Falling from grace
Winner-Take-All Politics
The rise of professional society
Aristocracy and the middle-classes in Germany
Laboring to play
The Price of Paradise: The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America
Schnitzler's century
Working Americans 1880-2004, Volume VI
AfterCulture
Service and Style
Social security and the middle-class squeeze
Young, white, and miserable
Standard of living
The Fragile Middle Class
In Pursuit of Status
Living with racism
In Praise of Books
Stemming Middle-Class Decline
Politics and production in the early nineteenth century
The Rage of a Privileged Class
Revolt Against the Masses
The Social origins of the French Revolution
Rebels without a cause?
Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture
The middling sorts
Free Love
Republic of the dispossessed
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