Creating a historical international standard classification of occupations an exercise in multinational interdisciplinary cooperation

Historical Methods

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 186-197

  Van Leeuwen, Marco H D ^a   Maas, Ineke ^b   Miles, Andrew ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL HISTORY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Historical occupational titles; History of work; Occupational coding and classification; Social history; Social mobility

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; LABOR MARKET; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATION;

EID: 13644280052     PISSN: 01615440     EISSN: 19401906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/HMTS.37.4.186-197     Document Type: Article

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