The buoyant class: Bourgeois family lineage in the life stories of Czech business elite persons

Sociology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 815-833

  Andrle, Vladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business elite; Communism; Czech republic; Life stories; Post communism; Social mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035511553     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003803850100815X     Document Type: Article

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