Social Class in Europe : An Introduction to the European Socio-economic Classification (Paperback)

Part 1: Introducing the ESeC 1. The European Socio-economic Classification: A Prolegomenon, David Rose, Eric Harrison and David Pevalin 2. From Derivation to Validation: Evidence from the UK and beyond, David Rose and Eric Harrison 3. The Application of ESeC to Three Sources of Comparative European Data, Rhys Davis and Peter Elias  Part 2: Measuring Social Class 4. Social Class and Employment Relations: Comparisons between the ESeC and EGP Class Schemas using European Data, Eric Bihagen, Magnus Nermo and Robert Erikson 5. Measuring Social Class: The case of Germany Heike Worth, Cornelia Gresch, Walter Muller, Reinhard Pollak and Felix Weiss 6. The Comparative Measurement of Supervisory Status, Reinhard Pollak, Gerrit Bauer, Walter Muller, Felix Weiss and Heike Wirth 7. Stable and Consistent with the Employment Relations’ Theoretical Background? Does the Prototype ESeC show these qualities with French Data? Cecile Brousse, Oliver Monso and Loup Wolff  Part 3: Using ESeC in Comparative Research on Social Class 8. The Effectiveness of ESeC and EGP in Clustering Occupations: A Study of Occupational Wage growth in Sweden, Eric Bihagen and Magnus Nermo 9. Class and Poverty: Cross-sectional and Dynamic Analysis of Income Poverty and Lifestyle Deprivation, Dorothy Watson, Christopher T. Whelan and Bertrand Maitre 10. Using the ESeC to Describe Socio-economic Inequalities in Health in Europe, Anton E Kunst and Albert-Jan Roskam 11. Unemployment Risks in Four EU Countries: A validation study of the ESeC, Mario Lucchini and Antonio Schizzerotto 12. Class of Origin and Educational Inequalities in Contemporary Italy: A Validation Analysis of the ESeC, Carlo Barone, Antonio Schizzerotto and Roberta Barone  Part 4: Conclusions 13. ESeC in Retrospect and Prospect: An Epilogue, David Rose and Eric Harrison