Table of Contents

Anthony F. Heath, John Ermisch, and Duncan Gallie: Introduction
John Ermisch: The Puzzling Rise in Childbearing Outside Marriage
Richard Breen: Why Did Class Inequalities in Educational Attainment Remain Unchanged over Much of the Twentieth Century?
John Gray: Is Failure Inevitable? The Recent Fate of Secondary School Reforms Intended to Alleviate Social Disadvantage
Paul Edwards: The Puzzle of Work: Insecurity and Stress and Autonomy and Commitment
Duncan Gallie: Entrapment in Unemployment: Motivational Deficiency or Structural Constraint?
Heather Joshi: Gender and Pay: Some More Equal than Others
Anthony F. Heath and Soojin Yu: Explaining Ethnic Minority Disadvantage
Sarah Harper and Peter Laslett: The Puzzle of Retirement and Early Retirement SARAH HARPER & PETER LASLETT
George W. Brown: The Social Origins of Depression and the Role of Meaning
Bryan Wilson and Eileen Barker: What are New Religious Movements Doing in a Secular Society?
Paul Rock: Victims' Rights in England and Wales at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century

About the Author

Anthony F. Heath, Professor of Sociology, Oxford University

John Ermisch, Professor of Sociology, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex

Duncan Gallie, Professor of Sociology, Oxford University