Social Change and the Middle Classes (Paperback)

Introduction Marking out the middle class(es) Part One Orientations 1 Glass analysis and social research 2 The debate over the middle classes Part Two Class, gender and ethnicity3 Gender and service-class formation 4 Women's employment and the middle class 5 Black middle- class formation in contemporary Britain Part Three Restructuring, employment and middle-class Formation 6 Managerial and professional work-histories 1 The bureaucratic career: demise or adaptation? 8 The remaking of the state middle class 9 Too much work? Class, gender and the reconstitution of middle-class domestic labour Part Four Place, space and class 10 Migration and middle-class formation in England and Wales, 1981-91 11 Gentrification and the urban middle classes 12 A middle-class countryside? 13 The new middle classes and the social constructs of rural living Part Five Consumption and the middle classes 14 Taste among the middle classes, 1968-88 15 Home-ownership and the middle classes Part Six Politics and the middle classes 16 Political alignments within the middle classes, 1972-89 17 Middle-class radicalism revisited Part Seven Conclusions 18 The service class revisited 19 Reflections on gender and geography 20 Assets and the middle classes in contemporary Britain