Snakes and Ladders
''Intensely readable... A stimulating and necessary redress'' David Kynaston, Spectator
Politicians say social mobility is real... this book proves otherwise.
From servants'' children who became clerks in Victorian Britain, to managers made redundant by the 2008 financial crash, travelling up or down the social ladder has been a fact of British life for more than a century.
Drawing on hundreds of per...
''Intensely readable... A stimulating and necessary redress'' David Kynaston, Spectator
Politicians say social mobility is real... this book proves otherwise.
From servants'' children who became clerks in Victorian Britain, to managers made redundant by the 2008 financial crash, travelling up or down the social ladder has been a fact of British life for more than a century.
Drawing on hundreds of per...
