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??