Dumb luck, nurturing, hard work: how class does not always dictate fate

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A study that has followed a group of Australians for the past 29 years provides a fascinating insight into who gets a leg up in society, and how

In 1990, the Brotherhood of St Laurence began a study in the inner-city Melbourne suburbs of Collingwood and Fitzroy. Life Chances has echoes of the British Seven Up series, which has documented the lives of 14 people every seven years since the early 1960s.

 

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Links to the research report here: lifechances

The *almost* doing a lot of the hard lifting there...

I’m glad Britts don’t deny they still have a CasteSystem however mitigated. So does America to be honest. And it may well be far, far worse...

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