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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.

Social classes. --- Discrimination in employment. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --- Social classes --- Discrimination in employment --- Business economics --- Economics --- Industrial management --- Management --- Microeconomics --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Bias, Job --- Employment discrimination --- Equal employment opportunity --- Equal opportunity in employment --- Fair employment practice --- Job bias --- Job discrimination --- Race discrimination in employment --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Affirmative action programs --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- Labor & Industrial Relations. --- Labor. --- Great Britain.