Changing Classes: Stratification and Mobility in Post-Industrial Societies (SAGE Studies in International Sociology) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803988974 ISBN 13: 9780803988972

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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

Review

`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 Research

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0803988974
• ISBN 13: 9780803988972
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Esping-Andersen Gosta