The class ceiling : why it pays to be privileged /
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; THE CLASS CEILING; Contents; List of figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Note on language usage; Introduction; The (premature) death of class; Social mobility and the politics of inequality; Fair access to the top; Origins and destinations in contemporary Britain; Bourdieu and the long shadow of class origin; Lessons from the glass ceiling; From getting 'in' to getting 'on'; Layout of this book; 1. Getting in; The reproduction of privilege; Access across elite occupations; It's a family affair: Micro-class reproduction
- Explaining class reproduction: The role of education; Exclusions beyond class; Class, race and gender intersections; From access to progression; 2. Getting on; The class pay gap; The scale of the class pay gap; Double jeopardy; Locating the class pay gap; 3. Untangling the class pay gap; Aren't the privileged just older, whiter and more male?; Is education really the 'great equaliser'?; But what about hard work, skill and experience?; The (reverse) Dick Whittington effect; Finding a fit: Occupational sorting; Explaining the unexplained; 4. Inside elite firms; 6TV; Turner Clarke; Coopers; Actors
- From the class pay gap to the class ceiling; 5. The Bank of Mum and Dad; Family fortunes; Money talks: Responses to typecasting; The leaky pipeline: Sorting, segregation, stagnation; Downplaying privilege?; Money matters less at Coopers and Turner Clarke; 6. A helping hand; Hitting the partner track: Accumulating experience; 'It's quite medieval in television': Sponsorship and lateral hiring at 6TV; Turning the tables: Sponsorship at Coopers; Networks and inequality; 7. Fitting in; The glass slipper; Are you Partner material? The power of corporate 'polish'; Studied informality
- 'Seeing through the bullshit': Coopers as 'pragmatic' architects; 'Merit' is tricky: The tyranny of 'fit'; 8. View from the top; How elites close off the top; It's not Hegel! The highbrow culture of Commissioning; Voicing class distinction: The power of RP in British acting; Client matching: Flattery will you get you everywhere; Room at the top; Looking-glass 'merit'; 9. Self-elimination; Opting out ('I don't belong there'); Playing safe ('Have I ever gone there? No. And that probably tells you a lot'); A step too far ('You can sort of change yourself but that only gets you so far')
- The price of the ticket; 10. Class ceilings: A new approach to social mobility; The class ceiling: A synthetic mobility analysis; Beyond snapshots: Capturing the long shadow of class origin; Capitals in context; 11. Conclusion; The invisible hand (up); The performance of 'merit'; Birds of a feather; When 'merit' does not stick; Why this matters; Why this matters for sociology; Some clarifications; Prevailing winds; Epilogue: 10 ways to break the class ceiling; 1. Measure and monitor class background; 2. Find out whether our organisation has a class ceiling