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1. Introduction Part 1. Growth and Decline of the Middle Class: Global, Regional and Local Dynamics 2. A Global Middle Class Is More Promise than Reality 3. European Middle Class under Threat: Trends and Root Causes 4. Diversity of Capitalisms and the Growth of the Middle Classes in Asia and Latin America 5. The Poverty of the 'Middle Classing' of Development: Key Problems in Southern Africa 6. Marriage, Household Composition, Class Status by Nativity for Women of Color: 1980-2014 7. Urban Decline, Public Sector Contraction and the Experiences of Middle-Income African Americans: Using Detroit as a Case Study for Future Research Part 2. Locating the Middle Class 8. The Simplified Assumptions of the Global Middle Class Narrative Glocal Middle-Income Groups in Kenya 9. Theorizing Subaltern Middle Classes 10. An Absent Asset-Based Black American Middle Class: The Iterative Role of Hard Work, Education, and Intergenerational Poverty 11. Understanding the Burgeoning Indian Middle Class through its Expenditure and Asset-Ownership Patterns 12. What has happened to the Middle Class? Incomes and Perceived Social Position Dynamics in Different Countries Part 3: Lived Middle Class Experience 13. Framing India's New Middle Class Politics of Lifestyle in the Globalisation Era 14. Exploring the 'Lived' Middle Class: Everyday Experiences, Anxieties, and Adjustments 15. Insecurity and Anxiety of the Chinese Middle Class 16. Understanding Middle Class's Engagement with Social Activism: An Enquiry into Emerging Trends and Challenges 17. Social Benefits of Reservation: Mapping Social Mobility and the 'Paying Back' Tendency among the Middle Class 18. Social Mobility and Class in Africa