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First, let us clarify this notion of the middle class. Think of all 80 million or so households as arranged in one grand list according to how much total income they have in a year. [I leave aside unattached individuals, for whom the figures are of course much more striking--everyone understands by now that the only way for a household to obtain a large income is to send two or more wage earners into the labor market...
...figures]. His wife works as a waitress in a diner, averaging $6/hour in wages and tips. If he gets two Saturdays of weekend overtime during the year at time and a half [i.e., 16 hours of extra work in the year], then the two of them as a household will be better off than 60 percent of all the households in the United States. In short, by any reasonable construal of the term, they are upper-middle class...
...program complete with tutors who help with homework. San Francisco, with its multilingual population, offers a computerized card catalog in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Vietnamese. Some libraries provide boxes of discount coupons for grocery shoppers and one-day passes to museums; a branch in Chicago even lends ladders and household tools...
...Hochschild makes clear that a loss for the wife isn't necessarily a gain for the husband. Second Shift tells the story of several families in which mothers, fathers and children alike suffer from the unequal division of household labor...
Quite a few business leaders look toward both past and future with considerable misgivings. "The costs of all this are going to be horrendous in the 1990s," says Donald Clark, chairman of Household International. "We just overlooked major problems like drugs and our schools." Elmer Johnson, a , former executive vice president of General Motors, says, "The financial wizards of wheeling, dealing and acquisitions brought their bags of tricks, but they turned out to be a lot of hogwash. The main concern should have been, Who's minding the store?" Observes William Weisz, vice chairman of Motorola: "The kind of issues...