Introduction: beginning the work of class and culture
Essex: class, aspiration and social mobility
The revolting "underclass": "you know them when you see them"
Top of the class: education, capital and choice
The ones who got away: celebrity life stories of upward social mobility
The upper classes: visibility, adaptability and change
"Are you thinking what we're thinking?" : class, immigration and belonging
Austerity Britain: back to the future
Afterword: "we are all in this together".