Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class IdentityPolls tell us that most Americans whether they earn $20,000 or $200,000 a year think of themselves as middle class. As this phenomenon suggests, middle class is a category whose definition is not necessarily self evident. In this book, historian Daniel Walkowitz approaches the question of what it means to be middle class from an innovative angle. Focusing on the history of social workers who daily patrol the boundaries of class he examines the changed