Contents // page number // Introduction 5 // Key to activity icons 9 // Unit // 1 Class conflict and the Great Depression 11 // 2 ‘What did you do in the War, Daddy?’ 15 // 3 The Welfare State 19 // 4 Education in Britain 22 // 5 Does accent matter? 28 // 6 The upper class, ‘the Establishment’ and ‘the New Class’ 33 // 7 Youth culture and class 41 // 8 The industrial working class 46 // 9 Government and the trade unions 49 // 10 The middle class 53 // 11 Thatcherism and ‘the Meritocracy’ 58 // 12 The snobbery that used to exist... 64 // Teacher’s notes 68 // Bibliography 102 // Contents 3