A short, innovative book that outlines what we know about the declining state of social mobility in the UK. It proposes what we should do to reverse this downward trajectory and make Britain a more mobile and just society

Preface -- Introduction: of ruling classes and underclasses : the laws of social mobility -- Social mobility by time and place -- Sweden : mobility achieved? -- The United States : land of opportunity -- Medieval England : mobility in the feudal age -- Modern England : the deep roots of the...