Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: The Melodrama of Mobility -- 2 The Eight Women -- 3 Key Words -- 4 Class Work: Education Stories -- 5 Social Mobility: "Facts" and "Fictions" -- 6 Personality Speaking -- 7 Gendering Displacement: Men, Masculinity, and the Nation -- 8 All in the Family: Class Distances and Divides -- 9 When It's All Said and Done ... -- 10 Conclusion: Living Through Compressed Modernity -- Coda -- References -- Index