An analysis of unemployment patterns among white and nonwhite heads of households showed unemployment risk determined by job tenure. Nonwhites lost jobs more often than whites when employed for less than six years. Jobs of nonwhites for all tenure lengths were more vulnerable in recession economies. (Author/AM)

This critique of the "orthodox radical" interpretation of social classes argues that the predominance of middle- class wage earners and women moving into the nonmanual job market constitutes a departure from the traditional "working class". Better working conditions and wages are the nonmanual workers' incentives to ally themselves with…