This article was adapted from the upcoming book "The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited" from Basic Books. Class has long been a dirty word in America. We’re the society of opportunity after all – ...

Americans have long imagined our nation to be a land of equal opportunity, where anyone can succeed with talent and hard work. Unfortunately, economic mobility is a scarce commodity today, and a child ...

When it comes to class mobility, geography is destiny, or at least a large part of it, according to a new study of earnings records. It’s much easier to climb the income ladder in certain cities—New ...

In this study we operationalize neo-Marxian (Wright) and Weberian (Goldthorpe) class concepts and compare mobility patterns across three industrial countries (the United States, Sweden, and the former ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In his desire to boost social mobility, the good news for Nick Clegg is that recent research shows that England ...