0 Life is just a job resume? / David W. Plath -- Careers and mobility in Japan's labor markets / Solomon B. Levine -- Changing employment patterns of women / Karen C. Holden -- Aborted careers in a public corporation / Kenneth A. Skinner -- Shiranai Station / Paul H. Noguchi -- Intertwined careers in medical practice / Susan O. Long -- Where security begets security / Jack G. Lewis -- Cataclysm and career rebirth / Theodore F. Cook, Jr. -- The office--way station or blind alley? / James McLendon -- The tempo of family formation / Samuel Coleman -- Where work and family are almost one / Jill Kleinberg -- Timetables and the lifecourse in post-industrial society / Julius A. Roth.