Stemming middle-class decline : the challenges to economic development planning / Nancey Green Leigh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leigh, Nancey Green.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution--United States.

Income distribution.

United States.

Middle class--United States.

Middle class.

United States--Economic conditions--1945---Regional disparities.

Economic conditions.

Regional disparities.

United States--Economic policy.

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

xviii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Center for Urban Policy Research, [1994]

Summary:

Leigh (city and regional planning, Georgia Tech) describes changes to and ultimately the decline of the middle-class from the perspective of individual earnings. This is a reprint of the 1994 original, and the period she studies is focused on the late postwar boom to 1987. She considers income decreases between 1967 and 1987, economic geography and uneven development, race/gender as a factor in economic restructuring, cost-of-living trends, and what should be done to stem middle-class decline. She argues that industrial restructuring rather than demographic restructuring goes further in explaining declining middle-class earnings. Tables and statistics are used extensively. There is no index. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218).

ISBN:

0882851497

OCLC:

30544852