International audienceThe increased precariousness of all working-class households, and not only the poorest, is likely to have changed the way they consume. By focusing the analysis on those who have (even temporarily) acquired a form of socioeconomic stability, and using a dual quantitative and qualitative method, we report both on the aspirations they share with households with a higher social status and on the economic behaviors or strategies they must deploy to achieve them. Their spending is characterized in particular by “new” social needs, such as a car and digital devices, but it also includes expensive amenities (branded clothing, technology) and services (restaurants, holidays abroad) that were previously almost totally absent. A...