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A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie - Dan Evans - Paperback

A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie - Dan Evans - Paperback

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A Nation of Shopkeepers sheds a light on this mysterious class, exploring the class structure of contemporary Britain and the growth of the petty bourgeoisie following Thatcherism. It shows how the rise of home ownership, small landlordism and radical changes to the world of work have increasingly inculcated values of petty bourgeois individualism; how popular culture has promoted and reproduced values of aspiration and conspicuous consumption that militate against socialist organizing; and, most importantly, what the unstoppable rise of the petit-bourgeoisie means for the left.

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