class structure

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Critiques of British class structure and bad actors within the police department are raised high enough to be impossible to miss.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2025

“Making sense of the beer business can be like understanding American class structure: There are fewer people at the top than at the bottom,” he writes.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2023

In cities throughout the empire, a hierarchical class structure prevailed, with the educated priestly class on top, followed by those who served in the military, agriculturalists, artisans, and finally enslaved people.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Today, whether or not they realize it, the wealthy tell the stories of their lives — and our class structure — within the framework that Alger articulated.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

There was a self-imposed class structure between the "bugs", those who worked in the subterranean chambers and the "air-heads" who worked where the daylight shone.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn