Recent studies of job tenure raise the question of the appropriate duration statistic to use in historical research. This article compares duration measures and examines their empirical and theoretical implications for historical research on employment tenure. Using a variety of data from the...

This revised edition of "Employing Bureaucracy" is an attempt to understand how industrial labour was transformed and to identify the historical process by which good jobs were created. It is, therefore, an account of the bureacratization of employment