The papers of this e-book address a number of issues relating to social stratification and work. The papers included here provide a diverse set of significant approaches and each makes a significant contribution to our understanding of social stratification and work. Taken together, they demonstrate the importance of social inequality and the various ways it shapes our societies and individual lives. The papers also have an international approach, drawing on material from many nations or focusing more directly on Spain, The Netherlands, Malaysia or Britain. The collection arises (with one addition) from papers presented at the highly successful Social Stratification Conference at Clare College, Cambridge, in September 2006.