CLASS-STRUCTURE AND INTERGENERATIONAL CLASS MOBILITY - A COMPARATIVE-ANALYSIS OF NATION AND GENDER

This article uses a Marxist conception of class structure to develop an account of intergenerational mobility based on the viability of strategies available to parents to secure their children's future material welfare. Mobility opportunities reflect the relative capacities of parents throughout the class structure to transmit productive property, skills and organizational control to their offspring, and the barriers to entry associated with particular class destinations. The mobility regime is parameterized as a loglinear model incorporating terms for general class persistence, immobility with respect to productive property, organizational resources and skill, and disaffinities between capitalists and workers. Data from the Comparative Project on Class Structure and Class Consciousness are used to investigate this model among women and men in the U.S., Sweden, Norway, Canada, and Australia.