Redrawing the Class Map: Stratification and Institutions in Britain, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Class Theorists and the Debate about the End of Class....Pages 11-26
Three Labour Market Trends and their Impact on the Employment Structure....Pages 27-39
Women, the Manual/Non-Manual Divide and the Working Class....Pages 40-50
Horizontal Divisions within the Middle Class....Pages 51-58
The Construction Logic of a New Class Schema....Pages 59-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Operationalization of the New Class Schema....Pages 75-84
The Class Structure of Britain, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland....Pages 85-93
The Distribution of Advantage within the Class Schema: Work Income and Promotion Prospects....Pages 94-106
Structural Divisions within the Class Schema: Firm Size, Public Sector Employment and Party Support....Pages 107-123
Collapsed Versions of the Detailed Class Schema....Pages 124-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Introducing Institutions: the Concept of Institutional Embeddedness....Pages 137-143
Class Differences in Pension System Integration....Pages 144-159
Class Differences in Trade Union Membership....Pages 160-178
Class Differences in Political Citizenship and Electoral Participation....Pages 179-196
Cumulative Differences in Institutional Embeddedness....Pages 197-208
Concluding Summary....Pages 209-221
Back Matter....Pages 222-257