Middle class incomes in the EU are highest in Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland, Austria, and Sweden, and lowest in Eastern … European countries. The middle class in Bulgaria and Romania are at the bottom of EU nominal incomes, but their living costs … are just half of the EU average. When accounting for differences in purchasing power in the EU, the middle class in …

Fordism was associated with a considerable growth in a "quasi-middle class," Neoliberal Financialization has been less …

be a broader concept (a middle class person, for example, expected to enjoy a measure of security in their socioeconomic … position, and opportunity to "rise," that someone merely engaged in material consumption at a "middle class" level does not …-war boom was not a generalization of middle classness, but of quasi-middle classness, and that the "decline of the middle class …

or consumption across the distribution, a decline in the middle class, and increased poverty, but no other clear pattern …