Career chances for working-class ‘no better now than 30 years ago’
Working-class men are no more likely to get into well-paid careers than they were a generation ago, according to academics.
A study claims that there has been “little obvious sign of any decline” in the influence of family background on life chances.
It says that although many more people now go to university, this does not necessarily mean they will earn more as employers struggle to make sense of the “ever-expanding plethora” of qualifications.
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“There is little obvious sign here of any decline in class-related factors which affect the chances of younger men compared to older men.”
There was a “striking” increase in the gap between rich and poor among the younger workers compared, with older ones.
So you go to school, play by the rules, and expect to get rewarded. Instead, you get told where to go. The reason is that the working class is the working class, in a horribly class conscious and class bigoted society. Therefore, the upper classes and middle classes will never give them as much as the time of day.
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