In Fear of Falling (Pantheon: 1989), her magnum opus, Barbara Ehrenreich charted the rise of the class consciousness of what she called the professional middle class. This is the articulate class that monopolizes the academy, the media, the elite professions, and all positions of authority in business and government. In short, it controls all of symbolic production in modern American society. And in as much as modern society is characterized by the rule of experts, decision-making is concentrated in this class. We shall therefore call it
Notes on the Myth of Working Class Racism (1)
Notes on the Myth of Working Class Racism (1)
Notes on the Myth of Working Class Racism (1)
In Fear of Falling (Pantheon: 1989), her magnum opus, Barbara Ehrenreich charted the rise of the class consciousness of what she called the professional middle class. This is the articulate class that monopolizes the academy, the media, the elite professions, and all positions of authority in business and government. In short, it controls all of symbolic production in modern American society. And in as much as modern society is characterized by the rule of experts, decision-making is concentrated in this class. We shall therefore call it