The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies

by Robert Erikson and John H. Goldthorpe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198279086
• ISBN13: 9780198279082
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"