In this article we review 40 years of cross-national comparative research on the
intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic advantage, with particular attention to …

The objective of this paper is to develop the notion of the career as a strategic link between
structural features of the labor market and the socioeconomic attainments of individuals. In …

Children growing up in homes with many books get 3 years more schooling than children
from bookless homes, independent of their parents' education, occupation, and class. This is …

Promotions and demotions are important events in most people's work lives. This study
analyzes the career mobility of a cohort of employees in a large corporation over a 13-year …

The enormous growth of London during the early modern period brought with it major social
problems, yet, as Steve Rappaport demonstrates in this innovative study, Tudor London was …

Recent scholarship on mobility has increasingly incorporated wealth. We ask if wealth
brings anything new to mobility research or is just a standard socioeconomic status (SES) …

In accord with the growing interest in work and the family, this paper critically examines the
issue of the family of orientation's impact on vocational development. First, limitations of the …

As a consequence of my earlier research on Japanese industrial relations practices, I
became convinced that a more systematic analysis of labor market behavior within a …

In tune with the overall theme of these meetings, this Presidential Address is an exercise in
the uses of controversy. I am perturbed about present developments in American sociology …

This study compared both effectively and ineffectively plateaued managers with
nonplateaued managers by investigating (1) career movement histories,(2) career attitudes …