Middle Classes in Africa Changing Lives and Conceptual Challenges /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kroeker, Lena (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), O'Kane, David (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Scharrer, Tabea (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Frontiers of Globalization
• Subjects: Area studies.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Economic sociology.; Ethnology-Africa.; Africa-Economic conditions.; Globalization.; Area Studies.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; African Culture.; African Economics.

This volume challenges the concept of the 'new African middle class' with new theoretical and empirical insights into the changing lives in Sub-Saharan Africa. Diverse middle classes are on the rise, but models of class based on experiences from other regions of the world cannot be easily...