Who Are The British Middle Class?
The people nobody knows anything about for sure, not even who they are —the British middle class—are to have £20,000 spent on them to solve their mystery. The Nuffield Foundation has given that sum for a “full-scale, fiveyear investigation into the middle glass.” Research workers of the London School of Economics will do the job. Says the report of the Foundation trustees: “The research workers will study how people rise and fall in this complicated caste-system. They will also investigate whether present conditions are becoming too difficult for the middle class.” The most important riddle to be solved is how people become middle class. One of the known ways, the trustees say, is by a university education. The £20,000, it is hoped, will provide as clear a picture of the class as there is today—because of similar investigations—of the working class.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 45, 24 January 1949, Page 5
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147Who Are The British Middle Class? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 45, 24 January 1949, Page 5
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