Downward mobility is not merely a matter of acccepting a menial job, enduring the loss of stability, or witnessing with dismay the evaporation of one's hold on material comfort; it is also a broken covenant. It is so profound a reversal of middle class expectations that it calls into question the assumptions on which their lives had been predicated.
Falling From Grace: The Experience of Downward Mobility in the American Middle Class (1988)
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