"Who they are - or were": middle-class welfare in the early New Deal.

INTRODUCTION

Class is all but invisible in contemporary American social discourse. At most, it is a fleeting image, a rarely detected underlayer to the complex texture of race, ethnicity, and gender that captures our society's attention. For many, America stands as the model of the classless society, one in which most people think of themselves as middle class (or at least as potentially so, with hard work and a little luck) and in which middle-classness is the socioeconomic face of "Americanness." (1) The recognized exception, the chronic poor, is seen as an aberration rather than evidence of a general system of class in the United States. (2)

Similarly, American law ...

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