HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Question
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White Collar Class
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Lower Class
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Immigrant Class
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Middle Class
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pew defines “middle class” as those earning between two-thirds and twice the median American household income, which in 2021 was $70, 784, according to the United States Census Bureau. That means American households earning as little as $47, 189 and up to $141, 568 are technically in the middle class.
Detailed explanation-2: -The middle class is shrinking As is often cited, the share of adults who live in middle-class households is shrinking. Now, 50% of the population falls in this group as of 2021, down from 61% 50 years earlier, according to Pew.
Detailed explanation-3: -In addition to masses of factory workers, the giant corporations of the Second Industrial Revolution also needed thousands of engineers, supervisors, clerks, accountants and other white-collar employees, resulting in a booming middle class.
Detailed explanation-4: -Industrial growth transformed American society. It produced a new class of wealthy industrialists and a prosperous middle class.