Know Your Place

The best review I have seen of this book is by Ash Sarkar, who described it as 'A testament to the power of rising with your community, and not out of it’Faiza Shaheen teaches at the London School of Economics, specialising in economic inequalities.

Very powerful points in this book which are succinctly written

Dr. Shaheen has a fascinating life story of educational upward mobility from working class London to Oxford PhD and teaching at LSE and Parliamentary candidate. But she uses this personal story to illustrate just how unequal Britain is. And this is not a story about how her true grit overcomes obstacles, but far more about the obstacles the majority of the population face in trying to make a decent living, get the healthcare and education they deserve. As an economist with great data analytical abilities, she nails inequality and the barriers to thriving brilliantly. But it is her personal stories of herself and other people that put great emotion behind the raw data. I read it in a day gripped by the story she unfolds. The only question that it raises for me: is why progressives world wide were so unable to stop the drift into systemic inequality. The consequences are so devastating. She has some good initial solutions and I hope there will be a sequel on these. Wonderful book.

Very interesting book, if you are interested in the realities of social mobility

A previous book. Reserved for my generation to generations as a treasure.