Originally published in 1980, but out of print for some time, this book is now again available.

The second edition of this classic study, fully updated and extended, now includes an analysis of recent trends in intergenerational mobility, the class mobility of women, and views of social mobility in modern Britain from a cross-national perspective.

In the current edition, the original analyses are left largely intact, but a supplementary section on 'issues of the present day' has now been appended to the end....This section includes chapters on the class mobility of women, the cross-national contours of mobility, and the structure of recent trends in the British stratification system. These chapters are no disappointment; they are as brilliantly argued as the original ones.