The fact that 35% of family named companies in the richest five hundred were still owned by the founding family (p29) seems to support the claim that those from wealthy backgrounds have a disproportionately high chance of attaining positions at the top of the wealth pyramid. ... 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. ... The outgoing headmaster of Eton today, Tony L...

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The commodification has led to difficulties in family and social life for many families with extended unpaid hours of work, casualization of the work, outsourcing jobs and risks of loss of jobs due to technology replacing workers. ... For policymakers issues that need to be addressed is the increased unemployment, by ensuring that enough support is given by allowances and other benefits, as well as structures placed so the unemployed can be adequately retrained. ...

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The social effects of industrialization are shared by individual and collective identities and supported by the intensified relation between the people and the globe. ... During the Industrial Revolution people and families migrated from the countryside to urban centers in search of work. ...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and n...

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