LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS OF A MODERN CITY. BOURGEOIS MIDDLE-CLASSES IN ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE (1842-1922)

The middle classes have had more internal clashes than external. A plethora of intermediary categories is necessary to understand this historical period. And these go beyond the “black and white”nobility/middle-class and the rest. Everywhere the slightest division of the intermediary layers could pave the way to new social discriminations. What did this vast middle-class have in common? Despite their differences, industrialists, merchants, rentiers, high school teachers, higher civil servants what united them? I contend that what united them was they all owned some form of asset and this was t... Mehr ...