This note, working from the basis of the author's prior paper, argues that the relatively high consumption standard associated with American "middle classness" was defined by the requirements of providing a household a minimum of comfort, mobility, security and economic opportunity in a context...

This paper takes up the much argued-over term "middle class" and specifically the standard of consumption the term may be said to denote. In the history this paper recounts it notes the ambiguities and evolution of the term, but holds that in the post-World War II United States it denoted a...

This working paper extends the author's prior line of analysis of precisely what "middle classness" may be considered to consist of, and just how widespread it may actually be (most recently seen in "The Remaking—and Decline—of the Middle Class: A Note"). In so doing it specifically...

In light of the extreme imprecision, and even obfuscation, surrounding the concept of "middle classness" this working paper examines it critically, identifying it with the individual's enjoyment of a particular measure of comfort, security and opportunity. Historically these were founded on...

This note, addressing the often ambiguous definition of "middle classness," offers the concept of "quasi-middle classness" to the end of helping clarify the issue. What distinguishes quasi-middle classness from middle classness in this analysis is that quasi-middle classness is more narrowly a...