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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455449503321

Titolo

Changing classes [[electronic resource] ] : stratification and mobility in post-industrial societies / / edited by Gøsta Esping-Andersen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Newbury Park, Calif., : Sage Publications, 1993

ISBN

9786612337185

1-282-33718-1

1-84920-825-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Sage studies in international sociology ; ; 45

Altri autori (Persone)

Esping-AndersenGøsta <1947->

Disciplina

305.5/13

Soggetti

Social classes

Social mobility

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. [242]-252.

Nota di contenuto

Post-industrial class structures : an analytical framework / Gøsta Esping-Andersen -- Trends in contemporary class structuration : a six-nation comparison / Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Zina Assimakopoulou and Kees van Kersbergen -- The post-industrial stratificational order : the Norwegian experience / Jon Eivind Kolberg and Arne Kolstad -- Class inequality and post-industrial employment in Sweden / Michael Tåhlin -- 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 / Gøsta Esping-Andersen.

Sommario/riassunto

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



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