Changing Classes
Stratification and Mobility in Post-Industrial Societies
1st Edition
Published on 26. August 1993
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-8039-8896-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book makes a significant contribution towards understanding the new class structures of post-industrial societies and the changing processes of social stratification and mobility.
Drawing together comparative research on the dynamics of social stratification in a number of key western societies, the authors develop a framework for the analysis of post-industrial class formation. They illustrate the significance of the relations between the welfare state and the household, and the critical interface between gender and class. Case studies of the USA, the UK, Canada, Germany, Norway and Sweden examine the differing application of these ideas in individual welfare states.
Drawing together comparative research on the dynamics of social stratification in a number of key western societies, the authors develop a framework for the analysis of post-industrial class formation. They illustrate the significance of the relations between the welfare state and the household, and the critical interface between gender and class. Case studies of the USA, the UK, Canada, Germany, Norway and Sweden examine the differing application of these ideas in individual welfare states.
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`The evidence accumulated is valuable.... This collection is very useful for its comparative data on occupational mobility and because it refutes the proposition that there exists currently a large, homogeneous and permanently trapped new servant class in advanced capitalist societies' - International Journal of Urban and Regional ResearchMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
521 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-8896-5 (9780803988965)
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Person
G[sl]osta Esping-Andersen is Professor of Comparative Social Systems at the University of Trento. He is the author of Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990) and Politics against Markets (1985), and the editor of Changing Classes (1993)
CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Francis G Castles ANU Canberra
Roger Goodman University of Oxford
Ito Peng University of Oxford
Guy Standing ILO Geneva
CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Francis G Castles ANU Canberra
Roger Goodman University of Oxford
Ito Peng University of Oxford
Guy Standing ILO Geneva
Content
Introduction - G[/ through o]osta Esping-Andersen
Post-industrial Class Structures - G[/ through o]osta Esping-Andersen
An Analytical Framework
Trends in Contemporary Class Structuration - G[/ through o]osta Esping-Andersen, Zina Assimokopoulou and Kees van Kersbergen
A Six-Nation Comparison
The Post-industrial Stratificational Order - Jon Eivind Kolberg and Arne Kolstad
The Norwegian Experience
Class Inequality and Post-industrial Employment in Sweden - Michael T[small o above a]ahlin
Is there a New Service Proletariat? The Tertiary Sector and Social Inequality in Germany - Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Gianna Giannelli and Karl Ulrich Mayer
Post-industrial Career Structures in Britain - Jonathan Gershuny
Does Post-industrialism Matter? The Canadian Experience - John Myles, Garnett Picot and Ted Wannell
Careers in the US Service Economy - Jerry A Jacobs
Mobility Regimes and Class Formation - G[/ through o]osta Esping-Andersen
Post-industrial Class Structures - G[/ through o]osta Esping-Andersen
An Analytical Framework
Trends in Contemporary Class Structuration - G[/ through o]osta Esping-Andersen, Zina Assimokopoulou and Kees van Kersbergen
A Six-Nation Comparison
The Post-industrial Stratificational Order - Jon Eivind Kolberg and Arne Kolstad
The Norwegian Experience
Class Inequality and Post-industrial Employment in Sweden - Michael T[small o above a]ahlin
Is there a New Service Proletariat? The Tertiary Sector and Social Inequality in Germany - Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Gianna Giannelli and Karl Ulrich Mayer
Post-industrial Career Structures in Britain - Jonathan Gershuny
Does Post-industrialism Matter? The Canadian Experience - John Myles, Garnett Picot and Ted Wannell
Careers in the US Service Economy - Jerry A Jacobs
Mobility Regimes and Class Formation - G[/ through o]osta Esping-Andersen