Introduction: The State of Class Analysis / Rosemary Crompton and John Scott -- Employment Relations and Class Structure / Aage Sorensen -- Social Position from Narrative Data / Jonathan Gershuny -- Class Inequality and the Social Production of Money / Geoffrey Ingham -- Logics of Urban Polarisation: The Views From Below / Loic Wacquant -- Employment, Unemployment and Social Polarisation: Young People and Cyclical Transitions / Robert MacDonald and Jane Marsh -- Late twentieth Century Workplace Relations: Class Struggle without Classes / Paul Edwards -- The Gendered Restructuring of the Middle Classes: Employment and Caring / Rosemary Crompton -- Conclusion: renewing class analysis / Fiona Devine and Mike Savage