Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Stable, Industrious, Sober Middle Classes of Society 12
6. 2. Middle-Class Culture in the Process of Formation 55
7. 3. Capital and Labor 95
8. 4. The Club Idea 136
9. 5. Corporate Greed and Partisan Exigency 175
10. 6. Substitutes for the Saloon 215
11. 7. Individualism Run Rampant 262
12. 8. Consumers Organize 300
13. 9. The Middle Classes on the Eve of the Second World War 348
14. Bibliographical Essay 357
15. Index 371
16. Backmatter 381