Abstract
Did capitalism create meritocratic opportunity or deepen inequality? Did it produce social atomization or class solidarity? While repudiating the Smilesian view of Victorian Britain as "a land of boundless opportunity" (1), Andrew Miles concludes that Victorian society grew increasingly fluid in the course of the nineteenth century. Yet it also proved more fluid than contemporary British society, contradicting "common-sense" views that today's society is more open than those of the past.
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