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A shift to middle class values and practices.

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  • David Marquand, one of the central themes of the golden age was 'embourgeoisement': the spread to the working class of the job security, career ladders and lifestyles...
  • We must therefore accept with all reserve the statements of those anarchizing socialists and bourgeois radicals who accuse the Socialist Party of "embourgeoisement"...
  • Curiously, we get a detour into the English word “gentrification,” “which can be translated as embourgeoisement”.
  • But mom-and-pop retailers could also become a political vanguard, jumpstarting the embourgeoisement of the Chinese population.
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