How Inequality Runs in Families: Unfair Advantage and the Limits of Social Mobility

by Gideon Calder

While we like to think that our society gives everyone a fair chance to succeed--and, crucially, move up the social ladder--in reality, children are to an astonishing degree bound by their parents and the class into which they are born. The children of disadvantaged parents typically achieve less financially and die younger than their peers who are born into better-off families. This book reveals how seemingly ordinary aspects of family life, as small...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447331532
• ISBN13: 9781447331537
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"