We Have Never Been Middle Class keyword-humanitarian Both specialists of Said’s work

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Karen Ishizuka's definitive history is based on years of research and more than 120 extensive interviews with movement leaders and participants

We Have Never Been Middle Class keyword-humanitarian Both specialists of Said’s workTidings 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.