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The chapters of this book examine the school-to-work transitions in postindustrial service societies and the interrelationships between education and training arrangements in the structuring of job-entry processes. The book is based on the papers presented at a 1996 conference about 'new passages and uncertain destinations' and presents the results of comparative longitudinal studies from Canada, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. The papers are divided into the following three sections: Part 1 - Social origin, gender, and transition patterns; Part II - Education and labour markets: work experiences, skills, and credentials; and Part III - Changes in the social context of transitions. The chapters are: Introduction: transitions to employment in a cross-national perspective / Walter R. Heinz; Social and geographical mobility 20 years after high-school / Paul Anisef, Anton H. Turritin, and Zeng Lin; Diverse directions: young adults' multiple transitions / Victor Thiessen and E. Dianne Looker; New routes to employment: integration and exclusion / John Bynner; From education to employment: occupations and careers in the social transformation of East Germany / Ansgar Weymann; Adolescent part-time work and postsecondary transition pathways in the United States / Jeylan T. Mortimer and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson; Multiple life-sphere participation by young adults / Lesley Andres; The subbaccalaureate labour market in the United States: challenges from the school-to-work transition / W. Norton Grubb; Creating new pathways to adulthood by adapting German apprenticeship in the United States / Stephen F. Hamilton and Mary Agnes Hamilton; Job entry patterns in a life-course perspective / Walter R. Heinz; Institutional networks and informal strategies for improving work entry for youths / James E. Rosenbaum; School-to-work transitions and postmodern values / Harvey Krahn and Graham S. Lowe; Education and employment in Great Britain: the polarizing impact of the market / Frank Coffield; From systems to networks: the reconstruction of youth transitions in Europe / Lynne Chisolm.