Marcos González Hernando is Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Social Research Institute, Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidad Diego Portales and Adjunct Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion.Gerry Mitchell is a freelance policy researcher, working most recently for the Think-tank for Action on Social Change (Dublin), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Stockholm and London) and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (Brussels).

• Introduction: Why bother with the well-off?1. Not billionaires, but well-off?2. On the ubiquity and invisibility of the upper-middle class3. ‘Work is life, that’s it’4. Don’t rock the boat: politics and the well-off5. Business class tickets for a sinking ship6. Jumping ship, but where to?7. Barriers to being comfortably off8. ‘When the facts change, I change my mind’Conclusion: Accepted truths, social distance and discomfort

"The most interesting feature of this book [is] its effort not to indicate the passivity of high earners, but their potential to facilitate social change." LSE Review of Books

Marcos González Hernando is Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Social Research Institute, Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidad Diego Portales and Adjunct Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion.Gerry Mitchell is a freelance policy researcher, working most recently for the Think-tank for Action on Social Change (Dublin), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Stockholm and London) and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (Brussels).

• Introduction: Why bother with the well-off?1. Not billionaires, but well-off?2. On the ubiquity and invisibility of the upper-middle class3. ‘Work is life, that’s it’4. Don’t rock the boat: politics and the well-off5. Business class tickets for a sinking ship6. Jumping ship, but where to?7. Barriers to being comfortably off8. ‘When the facts change, I change my mind’Conclusion: Accepted truths, social distance and discomfort

"The most interesting feature of this book [is] its effort not to indicate the passivity of high earners, but their potential to facilitate social change." LSE Review of Books

Marcos González Hernando is Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Social Research Institute, Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidad Diego Portales and Adjunct Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion.Gerry Mitchell is a freelance policy researcher, working most recently for the Think-tank for Action on Social Change (Dublin), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Stockholm and London) and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (Brussels).

• Introduction: Why bother with the well-off?1. Not billionaires, but well-off?2. On the ubiquity and invisibility of the upper-middle class3. ‘Work is life, that’s it’4. Don’t rock the boat: politics and the well-off5. Business class tickets for a sinking ship6. Jumping ship, but where to?7. Barriers to being comfortably off8. ‘When the facts change, I change my mind’Conclusion: Accepted truths, social distance and discomfort

"The most interesting feature of this book [is] its effort not to indicate the passivity of high earners, but their potential to facilitate social change." LSE Review of Books