This, he claimed, proved the existence of the 'dominant class' as a social phenomenon and the inaccessibility of those of a working class background to the higher echelons of society. Seeing as fee paying schools are, by their very nature, accessible to only a small portion of the population through their fees and the family connections required to attend, they are merely another social mechanism to retain Britain's wealth within a select elite. ... Firstly, he examines the notion that the managers appointed by the owners of large companies do in fact constitute a new class, on...

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