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Rachel Rich
Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 25, Issue 3, July 2020, Pages 408–423, https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcaa007
Published: 13 June 2020
... cookery writers, suggests ways in which authors were conscious of addressing multiple audiences, including mistresses and servants, and both confident and incompetent cooks. At the same time, the frequent appearance of both European and Indian recipes suggests that the middle-class cookbook market made...
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Idit Weiss and John Gal
The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 37, Issue 5, July 2007, Pages 893–908, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcl340
Published: 31 October 2006
... Workers. All rights reserved. 2007 Abstract This study examines the differences in perceptions of the causes of poverty of social workers and other middle-class professionals in Israel. A large-scale sample of 647 participants, of whom 482 were social workers and 165 middle-class professionals...
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Published: 06 December 2018
... of social security and social citizenship—‘residual but fundamental’. It is further argued that social assistance is ‘fundamental but not comprehensive’, i.e. the challenge of universalizing social citizenship extends beyond relieving poverty. To confront the problem of inequality and get the middle classes...
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Published: 16 January 2003
... include the differing relationship of the monarchy to the aristocracy in the two countries, of the aristocracy to the middle classes, of the central government to local government, and of the state to the church. No less important, however, were the philosophical differences. Where the British idea...
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Published: 12 December 2017
... Gould John India Kynaston David Boardman George Leadenhall Market middle classes character H E Dresser’s Lark Owl religious feelings H E Dresser’s Liverpool Robson John Scotland seabirds Gordon Cumming Roualeyn Middle classes Victorian society London merchant life Baltic and New...
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Published: 28 September 2015
...This chapter outlines the arguments created and challenges faced by the Communist party for a bourgeois-democratic revolution, particularly in opposition to the CNT's plans for the libertarian socialization of industry. Socialization would impinge upon the property of the middle classes, whose...
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Published: 01 September 2016
...The chapter explores the presence of cinema in middlebrow literary fictions, looking at how cinemagoing features in the depiction of middle-class life in feminine middlebrow literature specifically in novels by Winifred Holtby, Elizabeth Bowen, Stella Gibbons and others. It argues...
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Published: 16 March 2016
...This chapter describes the rising importance of middle-class refinement in the United States, and shows that black and white Americans fostered this culture together. Pursuit of middle-class status on the part of blacks and whites created unique kinds of dependencies, with whites dependent on black...
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Published: 08 October 2020
...This chapter examines various strategies deployed by El Salvador’s upper middle classes to contend with social violence and also addresses their role in configuring their nation’s persistent social inequalities. Specifically, it analyzes the way in which practices and representations associated...
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Published: 17 February 2004
... business managerialism. It concentrates on the paths of formation of three groups: the white middle classes; African Americans; and the ethnic white working classes. Under Joseph Knowland's leadership, the downtown elite consolidated a form of urban governance in the new regime. The Knowland...
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Published: 16 July 2010
... the masses can become individuals. Humphrey Jennings and Henry Green portray the democracy engendered by war through the sharing of leisure activities between classes. Elizabeth Bowen presents the wartime bonds between the classes as even more fragile and transient. The middle classes embraced the Lambeth...
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Published: 09 May 2008
... usage pattern of emerging urban middle classes in the developing communities and compares it with their counterparts in developed communities. Castells Manuel Digital divide Fourth World the Information Age Economy Society and Culture The Informational Society Information and communication...
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Published: 15 December 2012
... (ḳullebs). Earthen Mibkharah, and China dóraḳ, one‐sixth of the real size. Brass Drinking‐cups, one‐fifth of the real size. Sherbet‐cups. Lautcrn and Lamp. This chapter examines the hierarchies within families of the upper classes and middle classes, the appellations used for different members...
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Published: 10 October 2001
.... It emphasises that the effect on the analysis of the distribution of contributions and benefits across social classes is an important implication of bringing fiscal and occupational welfare within the scope of ‘welfare’. It argues that the middle classes are the primary beneficiaries of fiscal and occupational...
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Published: 22 October 2020
...2020 “Saving the Center” looks at the history of central business districts and the initiatives developed to clean up undesirable areas around them, making them more attractive to businesses and the middle classes. Planners tackling this issue adopted a highly targeted approach, often letting...
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Published: 21 March 2012
..., perhaps Ruskin's suspicions were justified, as art remained a luxury rather than a necessity. The Manchester City Art Gallery could not avert friction between its stated mission of giving workers access to fine art and artisanship and its frequent use as a space of middle-class entertainment...
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Published: 27 February 2013
...This chapter analyzes the emergence of neoliberal ideology and policy and its impact on different segments of the middle classes. It charts how the élite realm of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI) and the middle classes split between the advocates...
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Published: 27 February 2013
...This chapter considers the fate of the middle classes in the aftermath of the Mexican Miracle. It details Mexico's transition to neoliberalism with the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Mexico, Canada, and the United States on 1 January 1994. Although NAFTA...
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Published: 01 December 2015
.... The rise in the number of studios was indicative of the increased leisure capabilities of the rising middle-classes who had both the financial means and the leisure time to commission, consume and collate photographic portraits into albums. This was particularly noticeable in the larger Irish towns...
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Published: 14 September 2021
... with middle class emotional experiences of modernity, its exclusionary edge, its transnational dimensions, and its intersection with Western urban modernity. antivivisectionists bonds Cobbe Frances Power Descartes René de Vaux Baron emotion hunting dogs London loyalty MRI scans protectionists...