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Life history analyses in perspective - qualitative and quantitativedevelopments, Shirley Dex; histories of sickness - making use of multipleaccounts of the same process, Paul Bellaby; a land of "boundless opportunity"- mobility and stability in 19th century England, Andrew Miles and DavidVincent; from methodological monopoly to pluralism in the sociology of socialmobility, Daniel Bertaux; handling work history data in standard statisticalpackages, Catherine Marsh and Jonathan Gershuny; ageing and life history -the meaning of reminiscence in late life, Peter G.Coleman; life histories andthe cultural politics of history knowing - "the dictionary of nationalbiography" and the late 19th-century political field, David Amigoni; labourmarkets and industrial structures in women's life histories, Sylvia Walby;unemployment incidence following redundancy - the value of longitudinalapproaches, Leslie Rosenthal; youth unemployment and work histories, MeredithBaker and Peter Elias.