Social Change And The Middle Classes

Tim Butler is Principal Lecturer in Sociology at the University of East London. His research interests are in the fields of urban sociology and stratification. Mike Savage is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester and has an associate position at the University of North Carolina, USA. He was previously Reader in Sociology at Keele University.

• Introduction Marking out the middle class(es) Part One Orientations 1 Glass analysis and social research 2 The debate over the middle classes Part Two Class, gender and ethnicity3 Gender and service-class formation 4 Women's employment and the middle class 5 Black middle- class formation in contemporary Britain Part Three Restructuring, employment and middle-class Formation 6 Managerial and professional work-histories 1 The bureaucratic career: demise or adaptation? 8 The remaking of the state middle class 9 Too much work? Class, gender and the reconstitution of middle-class domestic labour Part Four Place, space and class 10 Migration and middle-class formation in England and Wales, 1981-91 11 Gentrification and the urban middle classes 12 A middle-class countryside? 13 The new middle classes and the social constructs of rural living Part Five Consumption and the middle classes 14 Taste among the middle classes, 1968-88 15 Home-ownership and the middle classes Part Six Politics and the middle classes 16 Political alignments within the middle classes, 1972-89 17 Middle-class radicalism revisited Part Seven Conclusions 18 The service class revisited 19 Reflections on gender and geography 20 Assets and the middle classes in contemporary Britain