Market class and employment

For the idea of researching change in the employment relationship, and the example of how to do so in practice, the authors owe their chief debt to Duncan Gallie, who also gave helpful advice and encouragement at

various points.

Deborah Smeaton, of the Policy Studies Institute, was a member of the original research team and made substantial contributions to t ideas, fieldwork, and analysis. We are most grateful to her for these, and for being an excellent colleague. research

The research was funded by a major grant from the Economic and Social Research Council's Future of Work Programme (L212252037) with additional support from the Work Foundation. The authors have also drawn on a further ESRC-funded study under the same programme, the main results from which (together with full acknowledgements) have been reported in White et al. (2004). Patrick McGovern, Colin Mills, and Stephen Hill benefited from the support of the Suntory and Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) at the LSE, while Michael White received additional support from the Regent Street Polytechnic Trust. Colin Mills wishes to thank the Sociology Depart ment of the University of Oxford for special leave during the 2005-6 ses sion and Professors Jan Hoem (Rostock) and Jan O. Jonsson (Stockholm) for being such gracious hosts at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the Swedish Institute for Social Research. Special thanks should also go to Professor Katherine Newman and the Department of Sociology at Princeton University for hosting Pat McGovern while this book was being completed. Pat would also like to acknowledge the sup port of the Leverhulme Foundation during this phase.