Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

Arne L. Kalleberg (editor). 1988 Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Volume 7. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press. ISBN: 0-89232-897-5 (cloth).

Arne L. Kalleberg (editor). 1989 Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Volume 8. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press. ISBN: 1-55938-019-5 (cloth).

Arne L. Kalleberg (editor).  1990 Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Volume 9.  Greenwich, Connecticut:  JAI Press.  ISBN: 1-55938-205-8 (cloth).

Table of Contents (Volume 7)

  • Introduction – Arne L. Kalleberg

The Structure of Career Mobility

  • Opportunity Models: Adapting Vacancy Models to National Occupational Structures – Roderick J. Harrison
  • Industrial Labor Markets and Job Mobility Rates – David S. Hachen, Jr.

Matching Persons and Jobs

  • Educational Credentials and Hiring Decisions: What Employers Look for in New Employees – David B. Bills
  • Job Quits in Theoretical and Empirical Perspective – Ross M. Stolzenberg

Organizational Control Systems

  • Control of Work and Worker Control: A Conflict Theory of the Governance of Transaction Costs in Work Relations – Terry Boswell
  • Commitment and the Company: Manager-Worker Relations in the Absence of Internal Labor Markets – William Finlay
  • The Property Rights of Jobs: Job Entitlement versus Managerial Prerogative in Manufacturing Firms – Kevin T. Leicht and Michael Wallace

Class Structure and Formation

  • The Structure of Organizations and the Structure of Class – Peter M.E. Hedström and Eva Wallin
  • Organizing Collective Interests: Causes of Cross-National Differences in Working-Class Formation – Tom Colbjørnsen

Subjective Aspects of Stratification

  • Economic Problems and Socioeconomic Beliefs and Attitudes – James R. Kluegel

Ethnicity and Stratification

  • The Impact of Stratification: Assimilation or Ethnic Solidarity – Hanna Ayalon, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, and Stephen Sharot

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Table of Contents (Volume 8)

  •  Introduction – Arne L. Kalleberg

Comparative and Intergenerational Mobility

  • Intergenerational Class Mobility in Comparative Perspective – Harry B.G. Ganzeboom, Ruud Luijkx, and Donald J. Treiman
  • Socioeconomic Opportunities in Germany in the Post-War Period – Aage B. Sørensen and Hans-Peter Blossfeld
  • Ascription and Achievement: Trends in Occupational Mobility in the United States, 1952-1984 – Moshe Semyonov and Carl W. Roberts

Occupational and Firm Labor Markets

  •  Identifying Occupational Labor Markets in a National Economy: A Blockmodeling Approach – Roderick J. Harrison
  • Job Histories, Career Lines and Firm Internal Labor Markets: An Analysis of Job Shifts – Robert P. Althauser

Issues in The Study of Earnings Determinants

  • Joe L. Spaeth, “Occupational Status, Resource Control, and Earnings”
  • Trond Petersen, “The Earnings Function in Sociological Studies of Earnings Inequality: Functional Form and Hours Worked”

Stratification and Socialism

  • Interrupted Embourgeoisement: Background and Life History of Family Agricultural Entrepreneurs in Socialist Hungary – Iván Szelényi and Robert Manchin
  • Mapping the Class Structures of State Socialism in East-Central Europe – József Böröcz

Stratification And The Family

  • Determinants of the Prevalence of Mother-Only Families – David J. Maume, Jr. and R. Gregory Dunaway

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Table of Contents (Volume 9)

  • Introduction – Arne L. Kalleberg

Comparative Studies of Mobility and Status Attainment

  • Inequality of Opportunity in Urban China and America – Peter M. Blau and Danching Ruan
  • Changes in Social Mobility in Two Societies in the Crux of Transition: A Hungarian-Irish Comparison – Albert Simkus, Rudolf Andorka, John Jackson, Kam-bor Yip, and Donald J. Treiman
  • Cultural Reproduction Theory on Socialist Ground: Intergenerational Transmission of Inequalities in Hungary – Harry B.G. Ganzboom, Paul M. De Graaf, and Peter Robert
  • Cross-National Status Attainment Research – Donald J. Treiman and Harry B.G. Ganzboom

Perspectives on Occupational Attainment

  • Educational Pathways to Early Career Mobility in Great Britain – Alan C. Kerckhoff
  • The Relationship Between Labor Force Behavior and Occupational Attainment – Clifford C. Clogg and Scott R. Eliason
  • Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Occupational Choice and Attainment – Catherine B. Silver and Seymour Spilerman

Studies Of Economic Segmentation

  • Regional Differences in Economic Segmentation and Socioeconomic Achievement in Australia – Krzysztof Zagórski
  • Segmentation Theory, Economic Performance, and Earnings Inequality – Lawrence E. Raffalovich
  • Is there a Nonspurious Link Between the Market Power and the Wage Structure of Firms?  Some Plausible Mechanisms – Thomas A. DiPrete
  • Power and the Rationalization of Employment – David L. Weakliem
  • Barriers to Women’s Employment: Economic Segmentation in American Manufacturing, 1950-1980 – Michael Wallace and Chin-fen Chang

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