Whether these emerging forces can coalesce at national and multination levels, reach out to employed urban-industrial workers and
downwardly mobile middle-class people and create a permanent power bloc to transform society are the questions that remain.
Unemployed workers' movement in Argentina. (Community Organizing)
Given the compelling likelihood that many Black children will go through 12 years of schooling and rarely encounter a Black teacher (most will never have a Black male teacher), I find it frightening that so many African-American college graduates see teaching as
downwardly mobile.
How can I afford not to teach?
Both shared a brutalized and peripatetic childhood in the midst of an increasingly desperate clan of
downwardly mobile former serfs and sharecroppers; they both led vagabond existences up and down the major river of their nation's heartland, deprived of fathers, disappointed in mothers, shuttling in and out of insecure households dominated by sporadic violence and a suffocating piety.
Richard Wright's long journey from Gorky to Dostoevsky
Reduced to bootlegging during the Great Depression, they have become "
downwardly mobile." To Paul Whitehurst, they are a walk on the wild side that he savors, a counterbalance to his proper Presbyterian background that had "deprived him of a certain depravity." Striated with half-breeds at this point, the Dabneys are a parody of their former selves, with dark-skinned, voluptuous daughters; they are dysfunctional to the point of delirious amoral opportunity.
A Tidewater Morning
To be sure, the American middle class is long extinct, and the superrich decorate their fortified pleasure-domes with "Nightmare Folk Art--Southern Gothic" or "Aggressive Retro Seventies," while the likes of Berry and Chevette,
downwardly mobile members of the service proletariat, can only dream of a weekend in a cheap motel or a visit to a VR theme-park.
Virtual Light
Human-resources types coin some memorable not-quite-ready-for-Webster words: the noun re-career is the new job you take after you retire from running with the big rats; job-lock explains your staying in a lousy job because it offers health insurance; and if you're a domo (from
downwardly mobile professional), you're an under-40 who shucks a promising career to concentrate on more meaningful or spiritual activities.
Up-skilling meets re-skilling. But can either one do the job?
For their part, Republicans who had faithfully served the interests of big business while stoking the ire of their white working-class constituents against minorities and immigrants discovered that those
downwardly mobile working-class whites had had it with the catering to big business.
The first post-middle-class election: the politics of downward mobility and racial diversity have eroded the center, pushing Democrats to the left and Republicans toward an authoritarian right
Instead, it provocatively features a fictive,
downwardly mobile citizen trying to get hard answers from real-life candidates regarding what they'll do in office to help needy supporters like herself.
Janeane From Des Moines
But by the age of 50,
downwardly mobile men are over three and a half times as likely to be depressed as women in the same position.
Job worries give men the blues
They "may look at vowed or ordained life as something that is not upwardly mobile, but rather
downwardly mobile."
Vocation and the parental factor: alleviating family worries plays a part on road to consecrated life
There's only been one flop - a cheesy ITV sitcom about yuppies called
Downwardly Mobile, which limped through just one series.
WORKING UP A SWEAT AS MR CHARITY; Pour workaholic Stephen Tompkinson a pint and he'll tell you the story of his continuing rise to fame and fortune, reports TIM RANDALL
Taking advantage of the interest in getting
downwardly mobile is The Futon Company which has a wealth of experience and should be able to give good advice about what kind of futon will best suit your requirements.
Interiors: Enter the comfort zone; Low life is not to be looked down upon according to the style-setters in High Street furnishings, reports Gabriel Roberts
Are the uncertain future of the small business remnant and the painful circumstances of the predominantly
downwardly mobile not the long-term fate of many more outside the factory walls?
Farewell to the factory: auto workers in the late twentieth century
Below them, a segment of
downwardly mobile working people found that their reduced job prospects and declining wages had placed them in the ranks of the working poor.
Keeping up with the Trumps: how the middle class identifies with the rich
She actually planned to become "
downwardly mobile," saying "For my generation of creative people, status is rejecting the status symbols."
The new status: reject status symbols!