1. Introduction: capitalism, class, and virtue; Part I. Professionalizing the Anglo Economy, c.1870-1945: 2. Civilizing capitalism; 3. Achieving class; 4. From bourgeois to professional; Part II. Managing the Global Economy, c.1945–1975; 5. Angels of the state; 6. Classy work; Part III. The New Class Conflict c.1975–2008: 7. Moral crisis; 8. Success is the only virtue; Epilogue: contours of the new class conflict.

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An ambitious study of the making of the professional middle class in the Anglophone world from c.1870 to 2008.

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Hannah Forsyth is a historian at the Australian Catholic University, Sydney. She was President of Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society 2020-1. Her first book was A History of the Modern Australian University (2014).

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