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People Like Us: What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain

A New Statesman Book of the YearAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4`S BOOK OF THE WEEK`Hashi Mohamed powerfully exposes the alienating and segregating effect of social immobility in this country.` David Lammy `A moving, shocking and clear-eyed account of the increasingly rare phenomenon of social mobility. Using his own extraordinary story as a spine [Hashi Mohamed] has written an analysis, how-to-guide and polemic on getting on and up in Britain today.` – Grayson Perry `Beautifully written and powerfully argued, People Like Us is essential reading` The Secret BarristerWhat does it take to make it in modern Britain? Ask a politician, and they`ll tell you it`s hard work. Ask a millionaire, and they`ll tell you it`s talent. Ask a CEO and they`ll tell you it`s dedication. But what if none of those things is enough?Raised on benefits and having attended some of the lowest-performing schools in the country, barrister Hashi Mohamed knows something about social mobility. In People Like Us, he shares what he has learned: from the stark statistics that reveal the depth of the problem to the failures of imagination, education and confidence that compound it. We live in a society where the single greatest indicator of what your job will be is the job of your parents. Where power and privilege are concentrated among the 7 per cent of the population who were privately educated. Where, if your name sounds black or Asian, you`ll need to send out twice as many job applications as your white neighbour. Wherever you are on the social spectrum, this is an essential investigation into our society`s most intractable problem. We have more power than we realise to change things for the better.

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