Volume 38, Number 5 · March 7, 1991
Class Dismissed
By Andrew Hacker
The Imperial Middle: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Class
by Benjamin DeMott
Morrow, 264 pp., $18.95
Money Income and Poverty Status in the United States 1989: Advance Data from the March 1990 Current Population Survey, Bureau of the Census
US Government Printing Office, 135 pp., $7.50
Most Americans will agree that this country has classes. Remarks about the poor and the homeless make that clear, as do ruminations on the rich and famous. But whether we feel we have a class system, let alone a class struggle, is another matter. So while admitting that classes—of some kind—exist, most of us do not want to push the notion too far. Better, for example, to speak of 'blue collar' employees than to worry about whether we have a 'working class.'
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