scholarly journals Why Do Middle‐Class Positions Matter? The Alignment of Short‐Term Rental Suppliers to the Interests of Capital

Antipode ◽  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismael Yrigoy ◽  
Marc Morell ◽  
Nora Müller
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Short Term

scholarly journals Rent-seeking middle classes and the short-term rental business in inner-city Lima

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (12) ◽  
pp. 2547-2563
Author(s):  
Mirtha Lorena del Castillo ◽  
Christien Klaufus
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Floating Population ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Alternative Means

Between 2007 and 2017, Lima experienced an unprecedented growth of the construction sector and an increase in high-rise condominiums. Urban land as a strategic resource has altered the spatial configuration of Lima’s central districts. This paper presents the results of a case study of Barranco, a central and emblematic district of Lima that underwent an intense real estate boom. In our assessment, we connect the recent touristification and gentrification debates to develop a new pattern of Latin American gentrification. We argue that Barranco’s consolidation as a tourist destination, along with the relaxation of local construction policies, has led to the development of one-bedroom apartments in high-rise condominiums destined mainly to be rented out to tourists and other types of floating population. This urban restructuring model has created new business opportunities for what we call a rent-seeking middle class, keen to invest in real estate as an alternative means to increase their income. By way of discussion, we argue that the case of Barranco exemplifies a new trend in Latin American gentrification which is not characterised by an influx of the urban middle class into central areas, nor by a massive physical displacement of lower-income residents, but by the growing purchasing power of a wealthier middle-class group investing in the short-term rental business in combination with other enabling factors.

Kin Support of the Black Middle Class: Negotiating Need, Norms, and Class Background

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmine D Hill
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Black Middle Class ◽  
Socioeconomic Background ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Class Background ◽  
Kin Support ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract In comparison to middle-class Whites, middle-class African Americans disproportionately provide financial support to their low-income family members. Evidence suggests that this practice is both essential for its low-income recipients and economically detrimental for Black middle-class givers. Scholars often oversimplify Black middle-class identity by describing kin support as motivated solely by racial identity. Gathering insight from 41 in-depth interviews, this article interrogates the conditions under which, despite their financial own vulnerability, middle-class Black families offer kin support. This study explores variations in Black middle-class racial ideology and observes how other dimensions of identity, such as class background, influence attitudes and decision-making towards family. This article demonstrates how socioeconomic background shapes the ways the Black middle class negotiates expectations of kin support and details three kin support approaches as either strategies for social mobility, tools reserved for short-term lending, or opportunities to repay unsettled childhood debts. This work contributes to our understanding of how the Black community deploys kin support, illuminates how the Black middle class makes sense of racial norms around giving, and centers class background in our intersectional understanding of identity.

Knowledge Management Driven Crowd Sourcing Platforms Facilitating Moonlighting Practices Of Workforce

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (11) ◽  
pp. 637-644
Author(s):  
Ms. Seema ◽  
Dr. Geeta Sachdeva
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Knowledge Management Systems ◽  
Crowd Sourcing ◽  
Working Population ◽  
Short Term

Crowd sourcing platforms are rapidly replacing the traditional knowledge management systems now-a-days. Computer savvy workforce has been practicing crowd sourcing for a considerable amount of time now and mostly those people who do or want to do double jobbing, are working with these crowd sourcing platforms. Crowd workers are mostly those people who perform skill based  and short term assignments for various organisations. They mostly practice double or multiple jobbing at the same time. Double jobbing is being practised by the middle class working population since time immemorial and in a variety of occupations. This is also called moonlighting in the business language.

Is Democracy Possible in Russia?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Political System ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The West ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Democratic Development ◽  
The Past

Abstract This article discusses the question of why a Western-style democracy has not been formed in Russia. The prerequisite for the formation of a democracy as a political regime is the domination of small and medium-sized private property and a middle class. Since the middle class has been small in Russia throughout most of its history for a number of objective reasons, the country has hardly known full-fledged democracy, and the current political system only imitates it. Russia’s attempts to enter the trajectory of democratic development—both in the early twentieth century, and since the early 1990s–have failed, and the trend of abandoning the basic principles of democracy has prevailed over the past two decades. The blame for this lies not only on the current Russian leadership but to no lesser extent on the political leadership of the West, which for the sake of short-term self-serving interests or political ambitions has contributed much to the formation of the current Russian regime.

The Rise and Fall of Kenyan Entrepreneurs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maike Voigt
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Special Regard ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Life Courses ◽  
Empirical Material

This book analyses middle-class enterprises in Kenya with special regard to their founders’ social mobility. Using concrete events, individual biographies and in-depth empirical material, Maike Voigt demonstrates how the interplay of personal and familial characteristics with larger political and economic trends determines individual social mobility. Methodologically innovative, ethnographically sound and with analytical clarity, this study highlights the short-term changes, insecurity and opportunities inherent in entrepreneurs’ life courses. It is a thought-provoking contribution to empirical and conceptual debates on social mobility, entrepreneurship and the rise and fall of the middle classes in contemporary African societies and beyond.

Beauty and Quality for All

2019 ◽  
pp. 453-474
Author(s):  
María A. Cabrera Arús
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
State Socialist

This article focuses on sartorial visions put forth by institutions and representatives of the Cuban regime throughout the 1960s to the 1980s, in particular the visions of modernity produced by and circulated through the institutions of fashion and clothing production of the Cuban state. It presents these visions as oriented to put forth a figured world of power aimed at persuading individuals to participate in the construction of the communist future by catering to the aspirational dreams of the middle class. The article concludes that such an imaginary helped in the short term to consolidate and legitimize the Cuban state socialist regime, allowing the new socialist middle classes to reinvent themselves as consumers, while participating in the construction of socialism. Yet, at the same time, for many people these visions were mostly a mirage, as fashionable clothes were not for sale.

DETERMINING THE AVERAGE PRICE OF NEW CARS IN RUSSIA USING A DYNAMIC MODEL

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
V. P. NEVEZHIN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Seasonal Changes ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Econometric Model ◽  
Average Price ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Passenger Car ◽  
Automotive Market ◽  
Car Market

The article deals with the issues of sales in the passenger car market and the factors that influence these sales. The main trends of the automotive market of new cars are studied. The reasons that contribute to the growth of prices for new cars are determined. On the basis of statistical data on car prices for the last four years, an econometric model of the time series is constructed, taking into account seasonal changes in sales. The obtained model and its application possibilities for obtaining a forecast of the average price of a middle-class passenger car in the short term are considered. Based on this model, a forecast of the average price for four periods is made, which is confirmed by the actual values of prices for middle-class cars in 2019.

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