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Writing over 20 years ago, Patrick Hutber identified the 1970s as ‘a time of crisis for the middle classes, who are subjected to unprecedented pressures and … unprecedented denigration’ (1976: ix). His book The Decline and Fall of the Middle Class and How It Can Fight Back argues that the middle-class has not only sacrificed the economic basis for its continued prosperity, it has also lost the battle of ideas. Crippled by a selfinflicted drive for egalitarianism and a related ‘middle class sense of guilt’, Hutber claims that ‘never has a section of society more enthusiastically co-operated in its own euthanasia’.
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Power, S. (2001). Missing: A Sociology of Educating the Middle Class. In: Demaine, J. (eds) Sociology of Education Today. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977507_11
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