Class and contemporary British culture

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".