People Like Us

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A New Statesman Book of the Year

AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S BOOK OF THE WEEK

'Hashi Mohamed powerfully exposes the alienating and segregating effect of social immobility in this country.' David Lammy

'A moving, shocking and clear-eyed account of the increasingly rare phenomenon of social mobility. Using his own extraordinary story as a spine [Hashi Mohamed] has written an analysis, how-to-guide and polemic on getting on and up in Britain today.' - Grayson Perry

'Beautifully written and powerfully argued, People Like Us is essential reading' The Secret Barrister

What does it take to make it in modern Britain?

Ask a politician, and they'll tell you it's hard work. Ask a millionaire, and they'll tell you it's talent. Ask a CEO and they'll tell you it's dedication. But what if none of those things is enough?

Raised on benefits and having attended some of the lowest-performing schools in the country, barrister Hashi Mohamed knows something about social mobility. In People Like Us, he shares what he has learned: from the stark statistics that reveal the depth of the problem to the failures of imagination, education and confidence that compound it.

We live in a society where the single greatest indicator of what your job will be is the job of your parents. Where power and privilege are concentrated among the 7 per cent of the population who were privately educated. Where, if your name sounds black or Asian, you'll need to send out twice as many job applications as your white neighbour.

Wherever you are on the social spectrum, this is an essential investigation into our society's most intractable problem. We have more power than we realise to change things for the better.

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A New Statesman Book of the Year

AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S BOOK OF THE WEEK

'Hashi Mohamed powerfully exposes the alienating and segregating effect of social immobility in this country.' David Lammy

'A moving, shocking and clear-eyed account of the increasingly rare phenomenon of social mobility. Using his own extraordinary story as a spine [Hashi Mohamed] has written an analysis, how-to-guide and polemic on getting on and up in Britain today.' - Grayson Perry

'Beautifully written and powerfully argued, People Like Us is essential reading' The Secret Barrister

What does it take to make it in modern Britain?

Ask a politician, and they'll tell you it's hard work. Ask a millionaire, and they'll tell you it's talent. Ask a CEO and they'll tell you it's dedication. But what if none of those things is enough?

Raised on benefits and having attended some of the lowest-performing schools in the country, barrister Hashi Mohamed knows something about social mobility. In People Like Us, he shares what he has learned: from the stark statistics that reveal the depth of the problem to the failures of imagination, education and confidence that compound it.

We live in a society where the single greatest indicator of what your job will be is the job of your parents. Where power and privilege are concentrated among the 7 per cent of the population who were privately educated. Where, if your name sounds black or Asian, you'll need to send out twice as many job applications as your white neighbour.

Wherever you are on the social spectrum, this is an essential investigation into our society's most intractable problem. We have more power than we realise to change things for the better.

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What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain

Mohamed, Hashi

Social mobility; Inequality; Discrimination; Classism; social change; owen jones; the secret barrister; the new class war; the establishment; afua Hirsch; slay in your lane; reni eddo lodge; why i'm no longer talking to white people about race; grayson perry; Social mobility and its Enemies; david olusoga black and british; sathnam sanghera empireland; akala natives; emma dabiri; so you want to talk about race ijeoma oluo; chavs owen jones; this land owen jones; mike savage social class; darren mcgarvey poverty safari; john boughton municipal dreams the rise and fall of council housing; estates an intimate history; anna minton big capital who is London for; all that is solid danny dorling; cash carraway skint estate; respectable lynsey hanley; my name is why lemn sissay; marcus rashford; one of them musa okwonga