Jobs for the Boys

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Science, Society & Culture

4.4 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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'Jobs for the Boys?' New research presented at the British Sociological Association's 2012 conference claimed that middle class people hoard job opportunities in the UK TV and film industry. In a pre- recorded interview from the conference, Professor Irena Grugulis, suggests to Laurie Taylor that working class people don't get these jobs because they don't have the right accents, clothes, backgrounds or friends. Indeed, it's hard to find an area of the economy where connections and contacts are more significant. But is this mainly due to structural changes in the industry rather than to class based prejudice? The media expert, Sir Peter Bazalgette and Professor of Sociology, Mike Savage, respond to this research and explore nepotism, networking and discrimination in the media world and beyond.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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0:43.0	Hello. I was once on an edition of Stop the Week in which a guest picked up on
0:48.3	Robert Robinson's reference to the importance of manners. That's a very, very middle class, said the guest.
0:55.6	Oh, is it? said Robert.
0:57.4	Good.
0:58.4	Well, I remember that retort and its emphasis whenever I hear people cavalierly dismissing Radio 4 on the grounds of its middle class. its specific class appeal. But might we not take a rather different view if it could be
1:14.4	shown that Radio 4 or the Guardian for that matter were predominantly staffed by people
1:18.6	from not just the middle class but from a privileged segment of that class.
1:23.0	Well, on the 4th of June this year, the online think tank opened democracy
1:27.0	conducted a little survey into the educational and social backgrounds of all the presenters and guests
1:32.0	who could be heard on the network that day.
1:34.0	Altogether data was acquired from 33 of the 42 people who appeared.
1:38.0	Results?
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