Title Class practices : how parents help their children get good jobs / Fiona Devine.

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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 285 pages)
	data file
Physical Medium	polychrome
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-275) and indexes.
Contents	Material help with education and employment -- Financial choices and sacrifices for children -- Aspirations and ambitions for 'good' jobs -- Hopes, happiness and 'fulfilling potential' -- Luck and contacts in the forging of careers -- Networks and friends in school and beyond.
Summary	This is an important new comparative study of social mobility based on qualitative interviews with middle-class parents in America and Britain. It addresses the key issue of the stability of class relations and middle-class reproduction and how parents seek to increase their children's chances of educational success and occupational advancement.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Employees -- Recruiting -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
	Employees -- Recruiting -- Social aspects.
	Great Britain.
	Employees -- Recruiting.
	Employees -- Recruiting -- Social aspects -- United States.
	United States.
	Social mobility -- Great Britain.
	Social mobility.
	Social mobility -- United States.
	Parents -- Social networks -- Great Britain.
	Parents -- Social networks.
	Parents -- Social networks -- United States.
	Education -- Parent participation -- Great Britain.
	Education -- Parent participation.
	Education -- Parent participation -- United States.
	Social surveys -- Great Britain.
	Social surveys.
	Social surveys -- United States.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Devine, Fiona. Class practices. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 052180941X 0521006538 (DLC) 2003055142 (OCoLC)52381092
ISBN	0511216912 (electronic book)
	9780511216916 (electronic book)
	051121331X
	9780511213311
	0511211546
	9780511211546
	052180941X (cloth)
	9780521809412 (cloth)
	0521006538 (paperback)
	9780521006538 (paperback)
	0511215126 (electronic book)
	9780511215124 (electronic book)
	9780511488771 (ebook)
	0511488777 (ebook)
	1280541059
	9781280541056

Title Class practices : how parents help their children get good jobs / Fiona Devine.

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