upwardly mobile

The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It

by Timothy Noah  · 23 Apr 2012  · 309pp  · 91,581 words

inklings that this message was starting to break through. It was even mentioned in the GOP presidential debates that the United States had become less upwardly mobile than Europe.2 But when Welch gave his lecture, word of this development had not yet reached him. He claimed that “if there is a

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instance, by factoring in blacks’ higher incarceration rate and lower participation in the job market. And as we saw in chapter 2, blacks are less upwardly mobile than whites. But the Great Divergence is a phenomenon that’s typically measured according to median household or family income, and by those measures the

The New Class Conflict

by Joel Kotkin  · 31 Aug 2014  · 362pp  · 83,464 words

. 16, no. 2 (Fall 2006): 19–36. See table 4 in Beller and Hout’s study: From 1930–1939, 49 percent of American men were upwardly mobile, 25 percent downwardly mobile, and 26 percent immobile. Due to the lessening of poverty after the depression, this decreased with every successive generation, but even

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between 1970–1979 more American men were upwardly mobile than stagnant or heading downward. 26. Richard Vedder, “The College-Graduate Glut: Evidence From Labor Markets,” Innovations (blog), Chronicle of Higher Education, July 11, 2012

Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth

by Selina Todd  · 11 Feb 2021  · 598pp  · 150,801 words

had afforded; and ambivalence about the kudos attached to climbing a ladder that classified their relatives and friends as ‘beneath’ them. The experiences of the upwardly mobile illuminate the obstacles that prevented more people from following them. Many felt ashamed of their background, or experienced social unease, when confronted with colleagues or

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fit in socially. Wives and mothers were chiefly responsible for negotiating this. Women’s appearance, accent and home decoration were all markers by which newly upwardly mobile couples were judged by their neighbours and colleagues. In downwardly mobile households, women were responsible for ‘keeping up appearances’, and striving to ensure that children

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Northcote–Trevelyan Report. In 1853, William Gladstone, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, commissioned this report into the organisation of the Civil Service. Gladstone, himself the upwardly mobile son of a merchant, had great sympathy with the argument that government should be in the hands of hard-working men who owed their positions

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employers. Caricatures of them as deferential and snobbish certainly had some basis in truth but such behaviour was provoked by the suspicions and sneers that upwardly mobile clerks faced from those higher up the ladder. In search of affluence, respect and dignity, they often found themselves treated as unwelcome outsiders. They

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and professionals fell.61 The growing demand for well-educated clerks meant that investing money and time in a child’s upbringing was increasingly important. Upwardly mobile parents were particularly conscious that smaller families could offer children a better start in life. They knew from personal experience the expense that larger families

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were fired by compulsory schooling but dampened by the cost of secondary and higher education. These benefits compensated for the hostility and suspicion that many upwardly mobile young people had to encounter from those who feared that their own position was threatened. This hostility, and the insecurity of their position, explains

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likely to go to secondary school.29 Interwar governments encouraged the unemployed to migrate to where the work was. Geographic mobility was to make them upwardly mobile – or at least prevent them falling into poverty. In 1927, Stanley Baldwin’s Conservative government introduced an official migration scheme, which placed unemployed men

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little patience with such ‘abrasive and unhelpful’ behaviour.3 Albert Halsey greatly respected Jean Floud’s ‘vivacious intelligence’. But he classed Jean and her few upwardly mobile contemporaries as ‘assimilators … in dress and speech to the culture of the higher metropolitan professionals.’ He didn’t realise that Jean Floud’s accent and

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… has not collapsed under the new purpose – the training of enough able people to man our technological society’ they wrote. The success of some upwardly mobile men did not, Jackson and Marsden argued, legitimate social hierarchy; it simply replaced one outdated pecking order with another equally arbitrary one. What was more

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with whom they worked.23 These differences of opinion highlight that ‘meritocracy’ remained controversial into the 1960s, with some of the upwardly mobile themselves pointing out its weaknesses and limits. These upwardly mobile men did not knock more privileged people off their rung of the ladder. Instead, they owed their rise to new opportunities

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research in sociology at Swansea University. Here he studied geographic and social mobility, influenced by the work of the breakthrough generation. As he suggested, the upwardly mobile social scientists of the 1950s and 60s set out to ‘create the role of sociological research worker’ as a respected scholar, whose work informed policy

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.26 But women of the breakthrough generation rarely enjoyed the same success. The upwardly mobile writers and social researchers were almost all men. They gave women only a supporting role in their stories and studies. Typically, Richard Hoggart described them

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too was the growth of private industry in the 1950s. Public-employment expanded further when Labour held power once more between 1964 and 1970. The upwardly mobile members of the golden generation went into clerical, engineering, technical and managerial work just as the breakthrough generation had done. But they were also increasingly

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such backgrounds ‘would probably become leaders in every branch of national life’, and therefore required an education that fitted them for this.16 But some upwardly mobile social scientists, most prominently Jean Floud and Albert Halsey, powerfully challenged this view. By the mid-1950s, they proved that middle-class children benefited

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strikes by council tenants, and student rebellions in Britain’s universities.1 Among the agitators both on and off campus, journalists identified a new group: upwardly mobile young people apparently biting the hand that fed them. When the periodical New Society interviewed demonstrators against the Vietnam War, the tabloids leapt on its

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to grammar school was ‘the big, big breaking ground’ that divided his Conservative-voting mother’s aspirations – she was determined that her children ‘should be upwardly mobile’ – from his own growing commitment to equality. Andrew ‘felt a failure’, but the chasm between the expectations that his secondary modern school had for him

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on the Manchester Evening Chronicle for a year and then moved to Fleet Street. Like his contemporaries in television, he was interested in showcasing other upwardly mobile young men. When he took over the Sunday Times’ ‘Atticus’ gossip column, he ‘dumped all interviews and stuff about bishops and establishment figures’, focusing

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-education colleges and comprehensive schools did not notice such a difference).56 Most of this group did not experience the social anxiety that many other upwardly mobile people endured. Those in the most socially mixed environments experienced least stress and anxiety. When Ruth Hirst arrived at Ruskin College, ‘I couldn’t

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with lone parents, pensioners, and unemployed dockers living alongside black families and a significant minority of students, hippies, social workers and trainee teachers.105 Many upwardly mobile professionals agreed with Lyn O’Reilly, who believed that ‘we weren’t that different to other workers’. Lyn believed she was still ‘part of the

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was then embodied in a different form by the Conservatives’ championing of free enterprise in the 1980s. As society became a more unequal place, the upwardly mobile magpies could find their own journeys perilous and stressful, their outcome uncertain. * Of all the generations featured in this book, the magpies were the least

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generations’ endeavours were the foundation on which their own easier lives and better prospects were constructed. But for young women, the effort and energy of upwardly mobile parents could provide an inspiration. In Tracey’s neighbourhood and at her comprehensive school ‘no one really expected much’ of her or her friends. ‘

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generation, and younger people, too. But the mass unemployment that corroded many people’s futures helped a few, including Morrissey, to realise their dreams. These upwardly mobile magpies, like those who climbed the ladder via education and public-sector work, experienced mobility as a collective enterprise. They did not see themselves as

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youth soon closed in, many of the magpies benefited from the optimism of the 1960s and 70s. For those whose parents had been upwardly mobile, and for those who were upwardly mobile themselves, Britain appeared a reasonably fair place, with plenty of opportunity. A minority made a career in the expanding finance sector, or

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manual work or with the profession. As Thatcher’s children and the millennials embarked on adult life, many of them believed that only by being upwardly mobile could they be successful. Politicians encouraged this. Older strategies for collectively improving people’s lives were weakened or destroyed. Blair retained Thatcher’s anti-trade

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-needed boost to the former.40 These reforms further eroded the conditions and status of teaching – the profession that had long been the destination of upwardly mobile graduates, especially women. Teachers lost much of their remaining autonomy, and their working conditions were eroded, for the owners of academy chains and free

Social Class in the 21st Century

by Mike Savage  · 5 Nov 2015  · 297pp  · 89,206 words

’t there key style icons who have little or no cultural capital in the way that Bourdieu talks about it? What about David Beckham, the upwardly mobile lad from Essex, who has defined new standards of masculine style over the past twenty years, but hardly on the basis of highbrow cultural capital

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artist working in her/his attic), as well as ‘industrialists’ who were well-off but not necessarily very ‘cultured’, in his terms (think of an upwardly mobile executive who had not been to university). And these kinds of subtle distinctions are often the ones that we are aware of when reflecting on

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professional) occupational backgrounds; those from slightly less high-status backgrounds (middle managerial and modern professional), categorized as short-range upwardly mobile; those from intermediate and technical occupational backgrounds, categorized as mid-range upwardly mobile; and finally those from low-status occupational backgrounds (manual workers and those who have never worked), who are categorized as

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long-range upwardly mobile. Returning to our mountaineering metaphor, we might view the first of these as having a base camp in the lofty mountain passes, the second group

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evenly spread, regardless of social background. It appears that there is only a minor discrepancy between the incomes of doctors according to their social background. Upwardly mobile doctors do not seem to struggle, despite a lower social background, to reach the highest levels of income within their profession. In contrast, there are

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a comparatively high number of upwardly mobile respondents in academia, but such academics are paid an average of up to £13,000 less than those from more privileged backgrounds. Perhaps the

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upwardly mobile academics are less likely to work at elite universities where pay tends to be higher. More generally, among lawyers, barristers and judges, CEOs and financial

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experience of the subtle but significant role that cultural and social capital played in her experience of an elite occupational arena was echoed elsewhere. While upwardly mobile respondents rarely felt their tastes or social networks had directly inhibited their careers or relationships, they nonetheless sensed that they lacked some of the advantages

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more privileged peers, even when they are in the same job. Moreover, as interviews showed, these deficits also often carried an emotional dimension, with the upwardly mobile feeling vulnerable and inadequate in elite settings. And in the last part of this chapter we want to show that this psychological dimension is crucial

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party, but also, most crucially of all, starting from the highest possible ‘base camp’. British culture has long delighted in lampooning the travails of the upwardly mobile, from Hardy’s Jude the Obscure and H. G. Wells’s Kipps right through to Monty Python’s ‘Four Yorkshireman’. These fictional portraits highlight how

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‘errors’ of taste and etiquette mark the upwardly mobile out as outsiders continually striving (but ultimately failing) to gain full acceptance at the top of their professions. And in such a way, elite mountaineers

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peaks may indeed look down on the day-trip hikers they see hazardously negotiating the lower slopes beneath. Perhaps the most memorable caricature of the upwardly mobile in recent years is Hyacinth Bucket, the aspirational housewife from the 1990s BBC 1 sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (who insisted her surname be pronounced ‘Bouquet

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way and can see their position as being markedly better than their parents are likely to feel content and satisfied. John Goldthorpe argued that the upwardly mobile whom he had studied in the early 1970s tended to be overwhelmingly content with the progress of their lives.15 Goldthorpe, however, concentrated on mobility

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feel content. And indeed, this sense of satisfaction was evident for a minority of our older upwardly mobile respondents. These older men from the post-war ‘baby-boomer’ generation were more likely to have experienced upward mobility as a smooth and successful experience and therefore rejected the role that class had played in their

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that people are uncertain about whether they have been upwardly mobile or not, and may also be more likely to take their cues from those whom they see at the very top of their profession. In

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this case, we might imagine that a sense of inferiority may be more likely. Our interviews reveal indications of this. The upwardly mobile had certainly faced many external hurdles, but the difficulties they reported were invariably as much about internal self-doubt as the judgements made, or barriers

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especially marked among immigrant groups, who often narrated complex stories of feeling that they did not belong to British society, even if they had been upwardly mobile into its higher reaches.17 The interplay between ethnicity, immigration and class caused intense tensions here. Gita, a graphic designer from London, had first-generation

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quite a detached person wherever I go. Our aim in presenting the stories of those like Gita is not to somehow suggest that Britain’s upwardly mobile are somehow unhappy people or suffer from psychological disorders. Not only is it far beyond the scope of our study to make such an assertion

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summit of British society implies a certain betrayal of class or cultural origins. Either way, the strong retention of a working class identity among many upwardly mobile respondents indicates that the emotional pull of class loyalties can entangle subjects in the affinities of the past, and why – despite prevailing political rhetoric – the

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this middle part of the class structure, mobility into the upper echelons and traditionally high-status professions is markedly more difficult. Moreover, even when the upwardly mobile are successful in obtaining a privileged position, they still often fail to amass the very highest levels of economic, cultural and social capital. Those

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upwardly mobile into the GBCS’s elite category, for example, are paid less, are less well-connected and less engaged in traditionally high-status culture than those

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from the stable elite echelons; and, when the upwardly mobile do participate, it is less likely to be in the traditionally elite arenas, such as the opera house or après-ski. This might explain why

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a lingering sense of deficit rooted in those from a lower-status background often underpinned the experiences of the upwardly mobile among those who felt they lacked the requisite cultural and social equipment to belong to the very top – even when, in fact, they had been

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In retrospect, the Sloane Ranger idiom actually looked forward to a consumerist era in which the trappings of ‘posh’ could be identified and attained by upwardly mobile outsiders. It represented the commodification of the posh ‘brand’, and its hiving off from the old landed elite itself. The archetype was Lady Diana Spencer

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the old aristocratic elite.8 The idea of the ‘Establishment’, however, has always acted less as a sociological concept and more as a means for upwardly mobile critical intellectuals to define their credentials by railing against it. Its recent revival is unfortunate. We believe that a better sociological understanding of today’s

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we have shown in previous chapters, this approach also involves contesting the contrasting simplistic media stereotypes which champion the success of the ‘working rich’, the upwardly mobile and ‘dynamic’ business-elite class. Access to the most affluent positions is far from being a level playing field and is indeed marked by inequalities

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of the power of elite universities. In the traditional model, attendance at a private school, or, in a contrasting way, a grammar school (for the upwardly mobile), was important in conferring potential membership of the elite class. However, whilst private schooling continues to bestow major advantages, there nonetheless is considerable recruitment into

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worked hard for it as well, with not the easiest starts. Easy in some ways, but not compared to many people. Nigel, a highly successful upwardly mobile academic turned businessman, very thoughtful and considered, only became irate when discussing private schooling, which he insisted did not aid an individual’s chances of

The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality

by Brink Lindsey  · 12 Oct 2017  · 288pp  · 64,771 words

The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged

by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison  · 28 Jan 2019

book – social mobility not just into but within elite occupations, from ‘getting in’ to ‘getting on’. Specifically, we ask three linked questions. First, do the upwardly mobile attain the same levels of earnings or seniority as those from privileged backgrounds? Second, if not, does a ‘class ceiling’ persist even when we compare

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. We also find that many conventional indicators of ‘merit’ go little way in explaining the pay gap. We find no evidence, for example, that the upwardly mobile work fewer hours, have less training or have less experience than their privileged colleagues. One marker of ‘merit’ is important, however – educational attainment. Those from

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likely to have degrees and less likely to have attended prestigious universities, both of which are associated with higher earnings. Yet, tellingly, even when the upwardly mobile do achieve the highest credentials, including Oxbridge degrees and/or first 21 The Class Ceiling class84 grades, they are not able to convert them into

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more able to assert their voice or opinion. But, again, our analysis revealed confidence to be a somewhat misleading explanation. For example, many of the upwardly mobile interviewees who told us they lacked confidence in such settings talked of other environments where they were very much at ease, such as with family

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0,0 -£1 0 ,00 -£5 £- 0 ,00 £5 00 0,0 £1 0 0 5,0 £1 Intermediate origins Note: Class pay gaps between upwardly mobile (working-class or intermediate origin) and professional-managerial-origin people in each of our 19 elite occupational groups. Average earnings differences are statistically significant at

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p<0.05 for one or both upwardly mobile groups in finance, law, medicine, chiefs of fire, ambulance and police, management consulting, accountancy, corporate senior management, public sector senior management, and IT. Source: LFS

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-£5,000 -£6,000 -£7,000 -£8,000 -£9,000 No controls Demographic controls Intermediate origins Working-class origins Note: Predicted class pay gaps between upwardly mobile and professional-managerial-origin people, with no controls, and in a regression model with controls for demographics – racial-ethnic group, country of birth, age, gender

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,000 -£6,000 -£7,000 -£8,000 -£9,000 Demographics only Intermediate origins All education measures Working-class origins Note: Predicted class pay gaps between upwardly mobile and professional-managerial origin people, with only demographic controls, and in a regression model with controls for demographics and educational attainment: highest degree attained, and

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-£7,000 -£8,000 -£9,000 Demographics only All education measures Intermediate origins Adding ‘merit’ measures Working-class origins Note: Predicted class pay gaps between upwardly mobile and professional-managerial origin people, with only demographic controls, in a model with controls for demographics and educational attainment, and in a model that includes

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-£9,000 Demographics only All education measures Intermediate origins Adding ‘merit’ measures Adding regions of UK Working-class origins Note: Predicted class pay gaps between upwardly mobile and professional-managerial origin people, with only demographic controls, in a model with controls for demographics and educational attainment, in a model that includes demographics

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Demographics All education Adding ‘merit’ Adding regions only measures measures of UK Intermediate origins Adding sorting Working-class origins Note: Predicted class pay gaps between upwardly mobile and professional-managerial origin people, with only demographic controls, in a model with controls for demographics and educational attainment, in a model that includes demographics

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this creative route – the dream of making, directing or producing television. However, although these initial orientations were similar, we were struck by the number of upwardly mobile interviewees who had then either deliberately chosen not to follow the ‘creative’ pathway, or who had left the track in the early or mid-section

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to fight my way there. This process of occupational sorting represents a key driver of the class ceiling in television. It means that very few upwardly mobile individuals actually reach the appropriate ‘pool’ to be considered for senior creative roles in places like 6TV. Instead, their creative talents often go unrealised as

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Ceiling also fundamental bases on which we evaluate “merit”. Indeed, consciously or not, gatekeepers may use cultural similarities when evaluating others and distributing valued rewards.’ Upwardly mobile staff at TC, particularly those who were women and/or members of racial-ethnic minority groups, described very different pathways to becoming a Partner. As

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analysis so far is that it tilts too far towards issues of ‘demand’ rather than ‘supply’. We have thus interrogated various barriers that hold the upwardly mobile back but have neglected how the mobile themselves may be implicated in the class ceiling. What about their actions, decisions, aspirations? In Giles’s experience

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tell us, people need to “really want it”, need to be “comfortable 171 The Class Ceiling asserting themselves”, need to handle “robust discussion”. But the upwardly mobile, he argues, “sometimes, not always, but sometimes shy away from that.” This is not an isolated view. Over the course of this project we spoke

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views on the topic. We did find some empirical support for ‘supply-side’ explanations of the class ceiling. In particular, we found evidence that the upwardly mobile do fail to seek out leadership positions as readily as those from privileged backgrounds. This did not necessarily apply to all, or even the majority

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. Yet we strongly challenge the idea that this points towards intrinsic class differences in confidence or aspiration. Instead we argue in this chapter that the upwardly mobile often commit acts of ‘self-elimination’ in elite occupations. This term is normally associated with Bourdieu, and specifically his analysis of class inequalities in the

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-elimination to education, we argue that it is equally important for understanding the decisions and strategies of those negotiating the elite labour market. Here the upwardly mobile tend to self-eliminate in three ways. First, in some cases, they simply opt out of concrete progression or promotion opportunities. Second, in other instances

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on to explore now. 178 Self-elimination The price of the ticket Many tend to presume that upward social mobility is a positive experience. The upwardly mobile are routinely presented as the ‘winners’ of meritocracy, romanticised figures who have made it ‘against the odds’. Popular culture abounds with such heroic tales, particularly

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demonstrated the potential of this method for capturing the stickiness of class origin. Examining career trajectories within the Norwegian upper class, Toft shows that the upwardly mobile tend to have much less stable careers at the top, arriving later than their privileged colleagues and often failing to ‘stay up’.51 Unfortunately, the

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already outlined – economic uncertainty, feeling less supported, or anxieties and ambivalences about ‘fitting in’. All these factors profoundly impacted the ‘career imaginations’10 of our upwardly mobile interviewees, of what they saw as possible in their careers. In Figure 11.111 we return to the heuristic diagrams that closed Chapters Three and

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‘merit’ is not just affected by a person’s class background. On the contrary, we find strong evidence – and the first we know of – that upwardly mobile women and (certain) racial-ethnic minority groups face a double (and even sometimes triple) earnings disadvantage in elite occupations. Black British women from working-class

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their execution of dominant behavioural codes. Our understanding of this type of mobility experience remains highly restricted. It is telling, for example, that it was upwardly mobile women and Black and Minority Ethnic actors who described their typecast as most offensive and caricatured, of trotting out the same old stereotypes – the battered

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other words, acts as an energy-saving device, allowing some to get further with less effort. Equally, the metaphor also visualises the experience of those upwardly mobile individuals operating ‘against the wind’. It is not that such individuals cannot move forward, or never reach the top; just that, generally, it takes longer

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further. And one question kept coming up – why? What mechanisms may be driving the class pay gap? People suggested a range of hypotheses – maybe the upwardly mobile are the victims of class discrimination, maybe they have lower aspirations, maybe they are less likely to negotiate over pay, or maybe they enter less

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, see Dews and Law (1995); and van Galen and van Dempsey (2009). Some studies have also reversed this focus, looking at the specific experiences of upwardly mobile men. This work has underlined the significant emotional, intellectual and interactive work men from workingclass backgrounds must produce to combat the misalignment between masculine dispositions

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focused on how ethnic bonds can actually act to inhibit (or de-incentivise) social mobility (Srinivansan, 1995; Bourdieu, 1987b). Nicola Rollock, for example, describes how upwardly mobile Black Caribbean people are often forced to abandon embodied markers associated with their ‘Blackness’ in order to gain acceptance in the white-dominated middle class

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process itself tends to produces meaningful dispositions for individuals (Burawoy, 1982). This illustrates what Bourdieu (2008, p 510) calls the ‘contradictions of succession’, where the upwardly mobile experience ‘success as failure’, as a betrayal of those family and friends who have nurtured and created them. There is currently a lively academic debate

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on this topic. While the work of Goldthorpe et al (1980), Marshall and Firth (1999) and more recently Chan (2017, 2017) find that the upwardly mobile often have psychologically smooth transitions, others such as Castagné et al (2016) and Hadjar and Samuel (2015) have deployed different data (qualitative and quantitative) 307

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in terms of the relationship between mobility and inequality, suggesting that high inequality increases the distances one has to travel within social space to be upwardly mobile, and therefore increases the likelihood that a mobility experience will be difficult. Fischer and Voss (1996); Atkinson (2015). Skeggs (1997); Lareau (2011). The highest ‘big

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why is this the case? Drawing on 175 interviews across four case studies – television, accountancy, architecture, and acting – they explore the complex barriers facing the upwardly mobile. This is a rich, ambitious book that demands we take seriously not just the glass but also the class ceiling. Sam Friedman is Associate Professor

Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

by George Gilder  · 30 Apr 1981  · 590pp  · 153,208 words

and a commitment to a lifetime of hard work. If work effort is the first principle of overcoming poverty, marriage is the prime source of upwardly mobile work. It is love that changes the short horizons of youth and poverty into the long horizons of marriage and career. When marriages fail, the

The Upside of Inequality

by Edward Conard  · 1 Sep 2016  · 436pp  · 98,538 words

poor children. Completing high school on time is a strong indication that a student will be a reliable worker—the kind of worker who is upwardly mobile. Failing to complete high school, even if a student later earns a General Educational Development (GED) certificate, has a significant effect on

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Robert J. Gordon  · 12 Jan 2016  · 1,104pp  · 302,176 words

at around forty hours, down from sixty hours per week in 1900. The period between 1940 and 1970 witnessed the white-collar transition toward stable, upwardly mobile careers. The improvements in workplace safety, in part brought by the shift away from blue-collar jobs, assisted toward this end by lengthening the span

Arrival City

by Doug Saunders  · 22 Mar 2011  · 366pp  · 117,875 words

city but not the more advantaged ‘graduates’ from the place,” Myers says. “When the influx of disadvantaged newcomers is growing or when the departure of upwardly mobile residents is increasing, the city’s average economic status will decline over time. This leads to an odd paradox: The downward trend for the place

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-reviving economy. And they weren’t hurt by the recession that began in 2008, whose effects on credit and employment largely bypassed Turkey. These are upwardly mobile arrivals. Nevertheless, they have little sympathy for the idealists who built this place—in fact, most of what they express is scorn. And no wonder

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the self-built settlements into truly thriving neighbourhoods. It has also meant that the worst sort of practices—bulldozer slum clearance, high-rise replacement of upwardly mobile arrival cities, complete neglect of the most basic sanitary and health needs, and criminal-gang control of services—have continued, and have even been amplified

The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class

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