Mark Erickson is Principal Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton, UK Charles Turner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick

• Contents: Preface; Introduction, Mark Erickson and Charles Turner; Wilhelm 'Gi' Baldamus: the man, his principles and his academic work, John Rex; Baldamus's adventures with cross-classification, John Eldridge; Efficiency and Effort revisited: emotional labour and contemporary sociology of work, Mark Erickson; 'Gi' Baldamus, Karl Mannheim and the idea of a social science, Peter Lassman; The Structure of Sociological Inference: a forgotten classic?, Charles Turner; The exoteric paradox: a contribution to Ludwik Fleck's theory of science, Wilhelm Baldamus; Networks, Wilhelm Baldamus; Bibliography; Index.

'This is an ambitious attempt to draw out the distinctive contributions of an idiosyncratic sociologist, working outside the mainstream. He brought a novel angle of approach to British empirical and theoretical sociology; connecting the concerns of theorists and industrial sociologists in original ways. This gives us a valuable new perspective on both familiar and forgotten work of the sixties.' Jennifer Platt, University of Sussex, UK