I: Introduction. 1. Evolving Labor Market Structures: Key Developments, 1975-2000; I. Berg, A.L. Kalleberg. II: Evolving Markets and Institutional Structures. 2. Risk and the Labor Market: Societal Past as Economic Prologue; S.M. Jacoby. 3. The U.S. Labor Movement: Toward a Sociology of Labor Revitalization; D.B. Cornfield, W. Fletcher. 4. Can the U.S. Industrial Relations System be Transformed? The Role of Ideas, Reform Efforts, and Social Crisis; T.A. Kochan. 5. The Next Long Swing: Spatialization, Technocratic Control, and the Restructuring of Work at the Turn of the Century; M. Wallace, D. Brady. 6. Labor Markets and Economic Transformation in Post-Communist Europe; R. Jenkins. III: Evolving Employment Relations and Work Structures. 7. Employment Relations and Work Structures and the Return to Huddersfield; I. Berg. 8. Evolving Employment Relations in the United States; A.L. Kalleberg. 9. Assessing the Decline of Internal Labor Markets; P. Cappelli. 10. The Loose Coupling of Jobs: The Subcontracting of Everyone? N. DiTomaso. 11. High-Performance Work Systems and Labor Market Structures; E. Appelbaum, P. Berg. 12. Careers and Employment Relations; A.B. Sorensen. 13. Age and the Labor Market: Trends in Employment Security and Employment Institutions; W.P. Bridges. IV: Evolving Patterns of Stratification in the United States. 14. Trends in Income Inequality in the United States; F. Nielsen, A.S. Aldersen. 15. Did Job Quality Deteriorate in the 1980s and 1990s? J. Schmitt. 16. Six Reasons for Skepticism about the Technology Story of U.S. Wage Inequality; J. Bernstein, L. Mishel. 17. Changes in Education and Changing Labor Markets; T. Bailey. 18. What Happened to Middle Management? M.W. Meyer. 19. Social Networks, Job Changes, and Recruitment; P.V. Marsden, E.H. Gorman. 20. Regional Labor Markets; J.J. Beggs, W.J. Villemez. V: Evolving Public Policies: Structure of Opportunity and Economic Outcomes. 21. Evolving Patterns of Sex Segregation; J.A. Jacobs. 22. The Sex Gap in Pay and Comparable Worth: An Update; P. England, J. Thompson, C. Aman. 23. Employment Discrimination and its Remedies; B.F. Reskin. 24. Hiring in Urban Labor Markets: Shifting Labor Demands, Persistent Racial Differences; P. Moss, C. Tilly. 25. Race and Labor Market Segmentation; R.L. Kaufman. 26. Immigration and Labor Markets in the United States; F.D. Bean, S. Gonzalez-Baker, R. Capps. VI: Afterword. 27. Evolving Labor Markets: Conclusions and Implications; I. Berg, A. Kalleberg. Index.