Middle Class: An Intellectual History through Social Sciences: An American Fetish from its Origins to...

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Battistini Matteo

Middle Class

An Intellectual History through Social Sciences: An American Fetish from its Origins to Globalization...

Battistini Matteo

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English

Haymarket Books
04 December 2023

Social & cultural history; Social classes; Social theory; Industrial relations & safety; Trade unions; Industrial arbitration & negotiation

Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

According to Matteo Battistini, The 'middle class' has become a fetish forged by the social sciences to legitimize American capitalism. In this invaluable monograph, Battistini traces the intellectual history of the middle class, and offers a social history of the political concept, whose specific scientific content has acquired an ideological centrality in the U.S. that has no equal in European history. Middle Class argues that the social sciences have freed the middle class from its historical relationship with work in an attempt to emancipate it from the tension into which it was continually dragged by class conflict. In the process, the social sciences overtun the image of opposing forces of labour and capital, replacing it with an image of a consensual order whereby capitalism and democracy can coexist without tensions.

Originally published as Storia di un feticcio. La classe media americana dalle origini alla globalizzazione, by Mimesis, Milan, Italy, 2020.

By: Battistini Matteo
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9798888900079
Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Pages: 217
Publication Date: 04 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgments 1 The Middle Class between History and Social Sciences 1 The (Lower) English Middle Class 2 Bourgeoise and Classe Moyenne 3 Mittelstand and Neuer Mittelstand 4 Crossing the Atlantic 2 The American Middle Class A Taken-for-Granted History? 1 The Middle Class as a Historiographic Category 2 The Middle Class as a Sociological Problem 3 The Middle Class of Progressivism 4 Brain Workers of the World, Unite! 3 The Middle Class as Historical Project 1 The Demiurge of the Middle Class 2 The New Deal for the Middle Class 3 The Crisis of the Middle Class 4 The Ideological Battle for the Middle Class 5 The Middle Class as Political Concept 4 The Rise and Fall of a Fetish 1 The Middle Class of Liberalism 2 The Movement against the Middle Class 3 The New Class of Neoconservatism (and Neoliberalism) 4 The Middle Class as a Figure of the Crisis (in Globalisation) References Index

Matteo Battistini is Professor of U.S. History at the University of Bologna. He has published monographs and articles on American political and intellectual history, including Karl Marx and the Global History of the American Civil War.