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No, in the U.S., the middle class can include much of the working class. The middle class has typically included the entirety of the manufacturing sector prior
by rcme 4y ago
No, in the U.S., the middle class can include much of the working class. The middle class has typically included the entirety of the manufacturing sector prior to the year 2000. When people vote for politicians who say they're going to bring back manufacturing jobs, those voters aren't clamoring for lower-class wages, obviously.
- remram 4y agoYes. In America, "middle-class" is everybody if you ask them, i.e. it is an extremely stretched concept.
- rcme 4y agoThat’s because, after WWII, you could do basically any job in the US and afford things we typically associate with the middle class, e.g. a modest home in a decent neighborhood. So everyone really was middle class.
- remram 4y agoYes, they are not working class.
- rcme 4y agoPeople who work factory jobs aren’t “working class”? Who is working class then? To be honest, it sounds like your definition of working class is the definition that’s being stretched. Upper / middle / lower class is about wealth. In a society with little income inequality, the middle class can become quite large. “Working class” is a class related to a type of work. In most places, the jobs that make up the working class are low paying, so the working class is also lower class. But this didn’t use to be the case in the US.
- remram 4y agoFrom wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class): > The modern usage of the term "middle-class", however, dates to the 1913 UK Registrar-General's report, in which the statistician T.H.C. Stevenson identified the middle class as those falling between the upper-class and the working-class. "Middle" literally stands for "between" working-class and upper-class. What do you think it's in the middle of? You can also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_middle_class#Academic_models https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_middle_class#Academic... for a comparison of different contemporary models of the American middle-class specifically (all of which place the middle class in the middle of working-class and some other class, obviously).