Changing Classes

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

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

`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