Life and work history analyses
Subtitle: qualitative and quantitative developments
By: edited by Shirley Dex.
Contributors: Dex, Shirley.
Series: Sociological review monograph,; 37
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1991
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Social sciences -- Biographical methods.; Life span, Productive.
Table of contents: title: Life and work history analyses / Shirley Dex; title: Histories of sickness : making use of multiple accounts of the same process / Paul Bellaby; title: A land of 'boundless opportunity'? : mobility and stability in nineteenth-century England / Andrew Miles and David Vincent; title: From methodological monopoly to pluralism in the sociology of social mobility / Daniel Bertaux; title: Handling work history data in standard statistical packages / Catherine Marsh and Jonathan Gershuny; title: Ageing and life history : the meaning of reminiscence in late life / Peter G. Coleman; title: Life histories and the cultural politics of historical knowing : the Dictionary of national biography and the late nineteenth-century political field / David Amigoni.