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Six decades ago, Seymour Martin Lipset and Reinhard Bendix published their book Social Mobility in Industrial Society, a pioneering effort to take a comparative look at the ability of people in countries around the world to climb the class ladder. An open class structure, promising economic opportunity for all citizens, was widely seen as conducive to political stability and healthy democracies. New middle classes would be a catalyst for democratic transitions in countries under authoritarian rule. Lately, however, this confidence has been shaken.
Current History commissioned a series of articles to reassess social mobility and to show how the dynamics of this crucial process are playing out in each region of the world. The articles collected in this anthology first appeared in the journal in 2018-19.
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