To-day the rebels are more often from the working or lower middle class, products of the Welfare State revolution which reached Oxford after 1945.
Balls, a middle-class product of Oxford and Harvard, was a bright, driven, occasionally intimidating presence throughout 13 years of Labour government.
Certainly my interest in the idea of social mobility comes from my own experience of being from a working-class family but ending up a middle-class product of that because of my education and now the job I do.
It is seen as a temporary partner and Citigroup is thought to have the first right of repurchase for IBM's shares.Ideally, Guangdong would be folded into Citigroup, with branches fanning out across China to offer services to the growing middle class, investment products and corporate banking, such as payroll and cash management.
The truth is that the plight of the middle class is a product of the triumph of capitalism, and is the direct product of deliberate national policies that have reflected the consensus of the American political and corporate establishment.
We tend to assume that the erosion of the economic position of the American middle class is a product of unintended consequence.
More than 100,000 African elephants have been slaughtered for their tusks in the past three years, as China's growing middle class demands ivory products as status symbols.
They're both pushing a fast-growing middle class to buy products they largely couldn't afford in the past, like mobile phones, consumer electronics, and large appliances.
As the American middle class helps build products for the world's middle class, the U.S. could move up to 15% or 16% of its jobs in manufacturing, a win-win scenario.
This smart, middle class White man, the product of a Greek supportive, loving and sometimes-smothering family, by all accounts should have come out with ease.
Twentieth-century American capitalism was built on what you might call the Henry Ford model — generously compensated workers (Ford paid double the existing rate) created a mass middle class that bought the products of the country's entrepreneurs.
