Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

Introduction (K.T. Leicht). The Changing Real and Symbolic Boundaries of Social Stratification. Symbolic boundaries and the new division of labor: engineers, workers and the restructuring of factory life (S.P. Vallas). Inequality in America: the case for post-industrial capitalism (J.I. Nelson). The movement of physicians between specialties (J.A. Jacobs et al.). Support for redistributive policies among the African American middle class: race and class effects (G. Wilson). Who Benefits from Rapidly Changing Markets? Evidence from Different Contexts. Working class wages during early industrialization: Brazilian evidence (J. Kelley, A.O. Haller). Redistribution under state socialism: a USSR and PRC comparison (Xueguang Zhou, O. Suhomlinova). Immigration, Marginalization and Exclusion. Strategies of economic endurance: Israeli Palestinians in the ethnic economy and the public sector (Y.P. Yonay, V. Kraus). Mass migration and labor market incorporation: Soviet Jewish immigrants in Israel (N. Weinberg). Modelling Occupational Mobility. Intergenerational mobility of class and occupation in modern England: analysis of a four-way mobility table (Yusheng Peng). The industrial context of occupational mobility: change in structure (R.L. Miller).