ABSTRACT
This chapter examines patterns and trends of job mobility, using data on work histories recently collected among a sample of employees in the Swedish city of Katrineholm. The nature of the barriers between classes can be viewed either from the position of the less privileged categories or from the position of the more privileged ones. Among the white-collar groups, the two lower strata are more homogeneous than the highest category, with more than half of total job experience being within current class, compared with slightly less than 40 percent for the higher salaried employees. The ability of static indicators such as current class position to capture the experience of class during entire working lives is naturally not given, but varies with the pattern and extent of mobility. The older salaried employees in the municipal sample tended to be recruited from working-class and middle-class backgrounds to a roughly equal extent.
