Not sure if the following bibliography will be of use to you. Apart from
a couple of historical works, it's largely a list of polemical works -
by Marxists, (U.S.) Progressives, Conservatives, and
Libertarians/Classical Liberals, about the Middle Class and its fate.
THE MIDDLE CLASS: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
By Dr. Chris R. Tame
Adelman, Paul, Victorian Radicalism: The Middle Class Experience 1830
1914, Longmans, London, 1984
Bingham, Alfred M[itchell]., Insurgent America: The Revolt of the Middle
Classes, W. W. Norton, New York, 1935; 2nd edn, 1938. A Progressive
view.
Brown, Alec, The Fate of the Middle Classes, Victor Gollancz, London,
1936. Possibly Marxist.
Cooper, Walter Gerald, Fate of the Middle Class, Consolidated Retail
Booksellers, New York, 1905
Corbin, John, The Return of the Middle Class, Charles Scribner's Sons,
New York, 1923. An American Progressive view.
Cultler, Richard Lloyd, The Liberal Middle Class: Maker of Radicals,
Arlington House, New Rochelle, New York, 1973. A Conservative polemic.
Glassman, Ronald M., et al, For Democracy: The Noble Character and
Tragic Flaws of the Middle Class, Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1993
Hutber, Patrick, The Decline and Fall of the Middle Class - And How It
Can Fight Back, Associated Business Programmes, London, 1976. A
Conservative polemic.
Morraze, Chrales, The Triumph of the Middle Classes: A Story of European
Values in the 19th Century (1957 in French), Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
London, 1966
Quirk, William J. & Bridwell, R. Randall, Abandoned: The Betrayal of the
American Middle Class Since World War II, Madison Books, University
Press of America, Lanham, Maryland, 1992. A Conservative view.
Smail, John, The Origins of Middle Class Culture, ..., 1994
Caldwell, Taylor (nd), "Middle Class Must Not Fail Or All Is Lost", at:
http://www.earthsharing.org.au/taylor.html *
A Conservative view, by the successful novelist.
Wahrman, Dror, Imagining the Middle Class: The Political Representation
of Class in Britain, c. 1780 1840, Cambridge University Press, 19??
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