squeezed middle Concepts

Hard Times: The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump

by Tom Clark and Anthony Heath · 23 Jun 2014 · 401pp · 112,784 words

, ‘A lost decade, not a burst bubble: The declining living standards of middle-class households in the US and Britain’, in Sophia Parker (ed.), The Squeezed Middle: The pressure on ordinary workers in America and Britain, Policy Press, Bristol, 2013, pp. 22–3, Figure 1.1.4. 21. Weekly average earnings figures

Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

by Alissa Quart · 25 Jun 2018 · 320pp · 90,526 words

manager and an Uber senior vice president until 2015, when the company decided to emphasize that it was coming to the aid of America’s squeezed middle class. The Uber platform, Plouffe writes, serves as the “pay raise they [the drivers] have not received in their other jobs.” Of course, working additional

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in our extended families could give us $25,000,” said Sophia. This was, of course, a pattern I saw over and over again for the squeezed middle-class parents of color I interviewed, whether immigrants or not. Their families of origin did not have as much savings as most of the white

Broke: How to Survive the Middle Class Crisis

by David Boyle · 15 Jan 2014 · 367pp · 108,689 words

, this feeling of being ‘stuck’ emerged before the banking crisis and the downturn. When the Department of Work and Pensions began investigating the so-called ‘squeezed middle’ in 2006, it found that — even then — a quarter of middle-income earners could not afford a week’s family holiday. Six per cent of

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incomes in the USA and Canada have flatlined for three decades now. Even in Germany, real monthly incomes have been falling. In fact, the term ‘squeezed middle’ came originally from the United States, where the term ‘middle class’ is usually used to mean what it says — those on average incomes — rather than

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different over there, but there are important parallels between the UK and USA, which is why the Labour leader Ed Miliband borrowed the American phrase ‘squeezed middle’ in 2011. The parallel has also been noticed by one of the most important commentators on world affairs. Francis Fukuyama is busily charting the decline

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something about it. Newspaper editorials across the political spectrum are warning politicians that economic growth will not satisfy voters unless living standards rise for the ‘squeezed middle’ as well as the richest. In Europe, only Turkey and Portugal are more divided, in terms of income, than the UK, and the middle classes

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-writing, 231 Somerset Food Links, 296 Sorbonne, 157 Soros, George, 131, 157 South London, 43 Southwark, 225 Spain, 56, 97, 294 Golden Age, 277–81 ‘squeezed middle’ (the term), 22 stamp duty, 149 Standard & Poor’s index, 198 Standard Life, 172 Standing, Guy, 17 Stewart, James, 255 Stiperstones Primary School, 252 Stock

The Cost of Inequality: Why Economic Equality Is Essential for Recovery

by Stewart Lansley · 19 Jan 2012 · 223pp · 10,010 words

after defeating his better-known brother to become Labour’s new leader, Ed Miliband made a pitch for the votes of what he called the ‘squeezed middle’. There is nothing especially new about Britain’s political leaders attempting to woo the central layer of British society. Mrs Thatcher won the 1979 election

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-rich, on the impact of wider economic trends on low and middle income households in Britain and on a largely forgotten group in Britain—‘the squeezed middle’. I have drawn on this work, published in a series of TUC economic pamphlets in 2008 and 2009, and on other articles I had published

The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

by Guy Standing · 27 Feb 2011 · 209pp · 89,619 words

precariat is in the front ranks, but it has yet to find the Voice to bring its agenda to the fore. It is not ‘the squeezed middle’ or an ‘underclass’ or ‘the lower working class’. It has a distinctive bundle of insecurities and will have an equally distinctive set of demands. In

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to criticism from a former general secretary of the Labour Party that the party appeared to side with the ‘feckless poor’ against ‘the hard-working squeezed middle’. But it might be more principled politics to think through the policy in terms of what it means for the precariat. Workfare advocates place labour

Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism

by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart · 31 Dec 2018

also help explain the cultural backlash we are witnessing. Notes 1. Lorenza Antonucci, Laszlo Horvath, Yordan Kutiyski, and Andre Krouwel. 2017. ‘The malaise of the squeezed middle: Challenging the narrative of the “left behind” Brexiter.’ Competition and Change 21 (3): 211–229. 2. Veronica Fagerland Kroknes, Tor Georg Jakobsen, and Lisa-Marie

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.’ Journal of European Public Policy 23 (9): 1259–1277. See, however, Lorenza Antonucci, Laszlo Horvath, Yordan Kutiyski, and Andre Krouwel. 2017. ‘The malaise of the squeezed middle: Challenging the narrative of the “left behind” Brexiter.’ Competition and Change 21 (3): 211–229. 11. Hanspeter Kriesi, Edgar Grande, Romain Lachat, Martin Dolezal, Simon

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reflected a more authoritarian, xenophobic, and nativist response to immigration and EU membership.27 But others challenge this claim, citing evidence that it was the ‘squeezed middle’ or intermediary class who reported financial decline and who voted Leave, not the working class.28 The June 8, 2017 UK General Elections Brexit was

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Economic Policy. http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/ download/dp1480.pdf; Lorenza Antonucci, Laszlo Horvath, Yordan Kutiyski, and Andre Krouwel. 2017. ‘The malaise of the squeezed middle: Challenging the narrative of the “left behind” Brexiter.’ Competition and Change 21 (3): 211–229. 11. Nick Clarke, Will Jennings, Jonathan Moss, and Gerry Stoker

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orientation.’ Frontiers In Psychology 8. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02023. Lorenza Antonucci, Laszlo Horvath, Yordan Kutiyski, and Andre Krouwel. 2017. ‘The malaise of the squeezed middle: Challenging the narrative of the “left behind” Brexiter.’ Competition and Change 21 (3): 211–229. Peter Dorey and Andrew Denham. 2016. ‘The longest suicide vote

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. The New Politics of Class. Oxford: Oxford University Press. See also Lorenza Antonucci, Laszlo Horvath, Yordan Kutiyski, and Andre Krouwel. 2017. ‘The malaise of the squeezed middle: Challenging the narrative of the “left behind” Brexiter.’ Competition and Change 21 (3): 211–229. 43. Hans-Georg Betz. 1994. Radical Rightwing Populism in Western

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Goodhart. 2017. The Road to Somewhere. London: Hurst & Co. See also Lorenza Antonucci, Laszlo Horvath, Yordan Kutiyski, and Andre Krouwel. 2017. ‘The malaise of the squeezed middle: Challenging the narrative of the “left behind” Brexiter.’ Competition and Change 21 (3): 211–229. Ed Howker and Shiv Malik. 2010. Jilted Generation: How Britain

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the pariah.’ West European Politics 41 (1): 1–27. See also Lorenza Antonucci, Laszlo Horvath, Yordan Kutiyski, and André Krouwel. 2017. ‘The malaise of the squeezed middle: Challenging the narrative of the “left behind” Brexiter.’ Competition and Change 21 (3): 211–229. International IDEA. 2017.The Global State of Democracy: Exploring Democracy

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satisfaction with democracy.’ American Political Science Review, 91(1): 66–81. Antonucci, Lorenza, Laszlo Horvath, Yordan Kutiyski, and Andre Krouwel. 2017. ‘The malaise of the squeezed middle: Challenging the narrative of the “left behind” Brexiter.’ Competition and Change, 21(3): 211–229. Armingeon, Klaus and Kai Guthmann. 2014. ‘Democracy in crisis? The

What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems

by Linda Yueh · 4 Jun 2018 · 453pp · 117,893 words

that benefits everyone in a society, has been touted in the United Kingdom. It’s also been heard in America, which has suffered from a ‘squeezed’ middle class and stagnant wages. Though the rise in income inequality can be partly traced to globalization, that does not suggest the remedy is to be

The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today

by Linda Yueh · 15 Mar 2018 · 374pp · 113,126 words

that benefits everyone in a society, has been touted in the United Kingdom. It’s also been heard in America, which has suffered from a ‘squeezed’ middle class and stagnant wages. Though the rise in income inequality can be partly traced to globalization, that does not suggest the remedy is to be

The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics

by David Goodhart · 7 Jan 2017 · 382pp · 100,127 words

strongholds that never recovered from 1980s de-industrialisation—and has burst out sporadically after 2008. It was also to be found in the so-called ‘squeezed middle’—a phrase coined by the Resolution Foundation think tank in 2010—the large group who have not made it into the security of the professional

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the lottery of where in the country you happen to live.) The closing of the gap between poorer households and middling households—part of this squeezed middle story—is partly the result of more people from poorer households finding mainly low paid work, which is itself partly the result of tougher sanctions

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/low-skill job disappearance in, 151; property bubble in, 98 Republican Party: ideology of, 62, 65; members of, 68 Resolution Foundation: 87–8; concept of ‘squeezed middle’, 168–9; reports of, 171 Ricardo, David: trade theory of, 101 Robinson, Eric: 36 Rodrik, Dani: 82, 89; concept of ‘hyperglobalisation’, 88; theory of ‘sane

The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay

by Guy Standing · 13 Jul 2016 · 443pp · 98,113 words

had abandoned traditional values for a crude utilitarianism in trying to appeal to ‘the middle class’, the ‘aspirational middle’ or, in its later guise, ‘the squeezed middle’. In doing so they were competing with the right, which was much more comfortable in that zone. What has happened on the right is equally