Mark Erickson is Principal Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton, UK Charles Turner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick

'This is an ambitious attempt to draw out the distinctive contributions of an idiosyncratic sociologist, working outside the mainstream. He brought a novel angle of approach to British empirical and theoretical sociology; connecting the concerns of theorists and industrial sociologists in original ways. This gives us a valuable new perspective on both familiar and forgotten work of the sixties.' Jennifer Platt, University of Sussex, UK

• Contents: Preface; Introduction, Mark Erickson and Charles Turner; Wilhelm 'Gi' Baldamus: the man, his principles and his academic work, John Rex; Baldamus's adventures with cross-classification, John Eldridge; Efficiency and Effort revisited: emotional labour and contemporary sociology of work, Mark Erickson; 'Gi' Baldamus, Karl Mannheim and the idea of a social science, Peter Lassman; The Structure of Sociological Inference: a forgotten classic?, Charles Turner; The exoteric paradox: a contribution to Ludwik Fleck's theory of science, Wilhelm Baldamus; Networks, Wilhelm Baldamus; Bibliography; Index.

Mark Erickson is Principal Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton, UK Charles Turner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick

'This is an ambitious attempt to draw out the distinctive contributions of an idiosyncratic sociologist, working outside the mainstream. He brought a novel angle of approach to British empirical and theoretical sociology; connecting the concerns of theorists and industrial sociologists in original ways. This gives us a valuable new perspective on both familiar and forgotten work of the sixties.' Jennifer Platt, University of Sussex, UK

• Contents: Preface; Introduction, Mark Erickson and Charles Turner; Wilhelm 'Gi' Baldamus: the man, his principles and his academic work, John Rex; Baldamus's adventures with cross-classification, John Eldridge; Efficiency and Effort revisited: emotional labour and contemporary sociology of work, Mark Erickson; 'Gi' Baldamus, Karl Mannheim and the idea of a social science, Peter Lassman; The Structure of Sociological Inference: a forgotten classic?, Charles Turner; The exoteric paradox: a contribution to Ludwik Fleck's theory of science, Wilhelm Baldamus; Networks, Wilhelm Baldamus; Bibliography; Index.

Mark Erickson is Principal Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton, UK Charles Turner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick

'This is an ambitious attempt to draw out the distinctive contributions of an idiosyncratic sociologist, working outside the mainstream. He brought a novel angle of approach to British empirical and theoretical sociology; connecting the concerns of theorists and industrial sociologists in original ways. This gives us a valuable new perspective on both familiar and forgotten work of the sixties.' Jennifer Platt, University of Sussex, UK

• Contents: Preface; Introduction, Mark Erickson and Charles Turner; Wilhelm 'Gi' Baldamus: the man, his principles and his academic work, John Rex; Baldamus's adventures with cross-classification, John Eldridge; Efficiency and Effort revisited: emotional labour and contemporary sociology of work, Mark Erickson; 'Gi' Baldamus, Karl Mannheim and the idea of a social science, Peter Lassman; The Structure of Sociological Inference: a forgotten classic?, Charles Turner; The exoteric paradox: a contribution to Ludwik Fleck's theory of science, Wilhelm Baldamus; Networks, Wilhelm Baldamus; Bibliography; Index.