The Constant Flux : A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies. This item is unavailable.The Constant Flux : A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies

This study of social mobility within the developing class structures of modern industrial societies is based on a unique data-set constructed by the authors. It focuses on the Western and Eastern European experience of social and economic growth after the Second World War, but also examines the experiences of the United States, Australia, and Japan. In combining historical and statistical analyses both of trends in mobility and of cross-national similarities and differences, the authors show that wide variation at the level of observed mobility coexists with a surprising degree of constancy and commonality in underlying patterns of social fluidity.

John H. Goldthorpe is a world-famous sociologist. Before taking up his present post at Nuffield College, Oxford, he taught at the University of Leicester (1957-60) and King's College, Cambridge (1960-9). He has also delivered the Fuller Lectures at the University of Essex (1979) and the Marshall Lectures at the University of Southampton (1989). He is a Member of the Academia Europaea and has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Stockholm University. He has written or edited several books, including The Development of Industrial Society in Ireland (OUP, 1992). Robert Erikson was expert to the Swedish Low Income Commission (1969-71) and was Director of the Swedish Institute for Social Research (1986-88).