TY - BOOK ID - 117339248 TI - The class ceiling : why it pays to be privileged AU - Friedman, Sam AU - Laurison, Daniel PY - 2019 SN - 1447336070 PB - Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social classes. KW - Discrimination in employment. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Social classes KW - Discrimination in employment KW - Business economics KW - Economics KW - Industrial management KW - Management KW - Microeconomics KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - State, The KW - Bias, Job KW - Employment discrimination KW - Equal employment opportunity KW - Equal opportunity in employment KW - Fair employment practice KW - Job bias KW - Job discrimination KW - Race discrimination in employment KW - Employment (Economic theory) KW - Affirmative action programs KW - Class distinction KW - Classes, Social KW - Rank KW - Caste KW - Estates (Social orders) KW - Social status KW - Class consciousness KW - Classism KW - Social stratification KW - Labor & Industrial Relations. KW - Labor. KW - Great Britain. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:117339248 AB - This important book takes readers behind the closed doors of elite employers to reveal how class affects who gets to the top. Drawing on two hundred interviews across four case studies - television, accountancy, architecture, and acting - it explores the complex barriers facing the upwardly mobile. ER -