The Radical Middle Class
Subtitle: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 17, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780691096681
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Political activism; Social classes; 20th century; Small business; Middle class; Sociology; United States - 20th Century; History: American; Oregon; Sociology - General; American History; History / United States / 20th Century; Political Science and International Relations; History; Portland; United States
First sentence: Arguably no class in human history has received so much comment, but so little systematic study, as the American middle class.
Description: "America has a long tradition of middle-class radicalism, albeit one that intellectual orthodoxy has tended to obscure. The Radical Middle Class seeks to uncover the democratic, populist, and even anticapitalist legacy of the middle class. By examining in particular the independent small business sector or petite bourgeoisie, using Progressive Era Portland, Oregon, as a case study, Robert Johnston shows that class still matters in America.

But it matters only if the politics and culture of the leading player in affairs of class, the middle class, is dramatically reconceived."--BOOK JACKET.