Gentrification and the Politics of the New Middle Class
@article{Ley1994GentrificationAT, title={Gentrification and the Politics of the New Middle Class}, author={David Ley}, journal={Environment and Planning D: Society and Space}, year={1994}, volume={12}, pages={53 - 74} }
Whereas authors have frequently alluded to an adversarial politics among the new middle class of professional and managerial workers, surveys and electoral returns confirm a generally conservative disposition in this group as a whole. In this paper I seek to specify a social location for left—liberal politics among a distinctive cadre of social and cultural professionals, the cultural new class. This cadre also bears a distinct geographical identity, with an overconcentration in the central…
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