class structure

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Paramount’s dual class structure also complicates any deal scenario that would involve investors who own publicly traded shares.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2024

“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

For his second Palme d’Or-winning satire, Ruben Ostlund follows up the art-world raspberry “The Square” with a savage, at-times stomach-turning comedy about the ultrawealthy that morphs into a wild upending of class structure.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2023

Occupational differences within the city led to a differentiated class structure.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott