{"product_id":"we-have-never-been-middle-hadas-weiss-9781788733915","title":"We Have Never Been Middle Class: How Social Mobility Misleads Us","description":"\u003cb\u003eTaking apart the ideology of the \"middle class\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTidings 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 financialization, 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. Ethnographic accounts from Germany, Israel, the USA and elsewhere illustrate how this belief orients us, in our private lives as much as in our politics, toward accumulation-enhancing yet self-undermining goals. This original meshing of anthropology and critical theory elucidates capitalism by way of its archetypal actors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hadas Weiss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1788733916\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781788733915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/29\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.70w x 0.80d","brand":"Hadas Weiss","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43984330653951,"sku":"9781788733915","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_22692222-f480-49d7-8e99-7c6c8e863ab0.jpg?v=1683271767","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/we-have-never-been-middle-hadas-weiss-9781788733915","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}