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The economic basis of social class
Author(s)John H Goldthorpe, Abigail McKnight
Corporate AuthorESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science
PublisherSTICERD, London, 2004
Pages33 pp (CASEpaper 80)
SourceCentre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case
KeywordsSocial class ; Labour economics ; Economics ; Theory.
AnnotationA theory of class positions based on employment relations is adopted in this paper, to assess what implications individuals' class positions have for their economic life. In particular, the authors consider economic security (the risk of unemployment), economic stability (the variability component in earnings), and economic prospects (lifetime earning profiles). Their findings provide empirical support for the theory itself, and little evidence for the currently fashionable claims of the decline - or even death - of class in today's society. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-040609509 B
ClassmarkT: WH: W: 4D

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