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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /512/ Reading Club: Middle-Class Dreams & Nightmares
Description: On Göran Therborn's article, "Dreams and Nightmares of the World's Middle Classes".
The penultimate episode of this block on the middle class, we discuss the differing fortunes and politics of the global North and South middle-classes – as well as ways they may be similar.
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