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Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison by The Class Ceiling Why it Pays to be Privileged (2019, Policy Press)

affirmative action, Ascot racecourse, Boris Johnson, Bullingdon Club, classic study, critical race theory, discrete time, Donald Trump, Downton Abbey, emotional labour, equal pay for equal work, gender pay gap, gig economy, Gini coefficient, glass ceiling, Hyperloop, if you build it, they will come, imposter syndrome, income inequality, invisible hand, Jeremy Corbyn, job satisfaction, knowledge economy, longitudinal study, Martin Parr, meritocracy, meta-analysis, microaggression, nudge theory, nudge unit, old-boy network, performance metric, psychological pricing, school choice, Skype, starchitect, The Spirit Level, the strength of weak ties, unpaid internship, upwardly mobile, W. E. B. Du Bois, work culture

Policy Press works to counter discrimination on grounds of gender, race, disability, age and sexuality. Cover design by Lyn Davies Front cover image: Martin Parr, Cartier Polo. 1998. G.B England. Ascot. 1998, Magnum Photos. Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International, Padstow Policy Press uses environmentally responsible print partners For our daughters, Cora, Skye, Ingrid and Freja The cover photograph of this book was taken by Martin Parr at Ascot racecourse in 1998. One of Britain’s most renowned photographers, and certainly the most celebrated chronicler of the class system, Parr took this photo while working on a wider essay which gloriously visualised the symbols of class identity and class division at the turn of the 21st century.

Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson

British Empire, call centre, Martin Parr

On the first night, Simon became dehydrated after an evening of boozing and drank some tap-water to quench his thirst only to spend the next ten days in bed rolling around groaning and clutching his stomach as the gastro-enteritis he had developed worked its way through his body. For the rest of the holiday I wandered alone around the grotty, vomit-washed streets, disconnected and melancholy and wing-manless, locked in a Martin Parr hell of ‘Choose Life’ T-shirts and fried breakfasts, the heady promise of reckless, jolly escapades reduced to a bitter fantasy spotlit by the cold reality of my teenage diffidence as I found myself unable to mingle or meet. Ironically, decades later, the real beauty of the island would reveal itself as my wife introduced me to the quiet rural calm of the north where we would spend endless pampered, panting summers; the island’s other saltier side a strange and distant shadow.

Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain by John Grindrod

Apollo 11, Berlin Wall, Bletchley Park, garden city movement, gentrification, Great Leap Forward, housing crisis, Jane Jacobs, Kickstarter, Leo Hollis, Lewis Mumford, Martin Parr, megastructure, military-industrial complex, Neil Kinnock, New Urbanism, Right to Buy, side project, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Traffic in Towns by Colin Buchanan, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, women in the workforce, young professional

We have moved from the postwar nationalisation of land to build everything from new towns to motorways, into an era where almost everything we think of as public space is actually private land, and where public housing has been sold off for a long-elapsed economic kick. For my obsession with the postwar rebuilding of Britain I partly blame Martin Parr’s collection of Boring Postcards, published in 1999. It triggered something in me, a desire to reconnect with something I’d long suppressed: my interest in my home town. I found in it page after page of delight and wonder. Parr’s collection showed pristine new town centres, ‘contemporary’ lift lobbies and gleaming airport lounges – the Britain I recognised from my childhood.

And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft by Mike Sacks

Albert Einstein, Charles Lindbergh, Columbine, David Sedaris, Donald Trump, Dr. Strangelove, Exxon Valdez, fake news, fear of failure, game design, illegal immigration, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, index card, Joan Didion, Martin Parr, Norman Mailer, out of africa, pre–internet, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, upwardly mobile

— Bob Powers Rock On — Dan Kennedy We All Die Alone — Mark Newgarden Mass Historia: 365 Days of Historical Facts and (Mostly) Fictions — Chris Regan Ghost World; David Boring; Twentieth Century Eightball — Daniel Clowes Ghost World: A Screenplay — Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff The Time Machine Did It; Dead Men Scare Me Stupid; How I Conquered Your Planet; The Exploding Detective; Double Wonderful — John Swartzwelder Boring Postcards USA — Martin Parr A Practical Guide to Racism — C.H. Dalton The Best of Scharpling and Wurster (CDs) — Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster Apocalypse How: Turn the End-Times into the Best of Times! — Rob Kutner Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, Health-Inspected Cartoons by Roz Chast, 1978–2006 — Roz Chast Elementary Education — Mark O'Donnell Oh, the Humanity!