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 HEMISPHEREFrancis G Castles ANU CanberraRoger Goodman University of OxfordIto Peng University of OxfordGuy Standing ILO Geneva

`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

• Introduction - G[/ through o]osta Esping-AndersenPost-industrial Class Structures - G[/ through o]osta Esping-AndersenAn Analytical FrameworkTrends in Contemporary Class Structuration - G[/ through o]osta Esping-Andersen, Zina Assimokopoulou and Kees van KersbergenA Six-Nation ComparisonThe Post-industrial Stratificational Order - Jon Eivind Kolberg and Arne KolstadThe Norwegian ExperienceClass Inequality and Post-industrial Employment in Sweden - Michael T[small o above a]ahlinIs there a New Service Proletariat? The Tertiary Sector and Social Inequality in Germany - Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Gianna Giannelli and Karl Ulrich MayerPost-industrial Career Structures in Britain - Jonathan GershunyDoes Post-industrialism Matter? The Canadian Experience - John Myles, Garnett Picot and Ted WannellCareers in the US Service Economy - Jerry A JacobsMobility Regimes and Class Formation - G[/ through o]osta Esping-Andersen