Whatever Happened to Skill?; I.Grugulis, C.Warhurst & E.Keep.- Conceptual Confusions: Emotion Work as Skilled Work; S.C.Bolton.- Skills that Matter and Shortages that Don't; A.Westwood.- The Interdependence of Social and Technical Skills in the Sale of Emergent Technology; A.Darr.- Training Reform in a Weakened State: Australia 1987-2000; I.Hampson.- Exploring the Concept of Employer Demand for Skills and Qualifications: Case Studies from the Public Sector; H.Rainbird, A.Munro & L.Holly.- What is 'Skill'? Training for Discipline in the Low-Wage Labour Market; G.Lafar.- The Institutionalisation of Skill Division in Britain and Germany: Examples from the Construction Industry; L.Clarke & G.Herrmann.- Job Complexity and Task Discretion: Tracking the Direction of Skills at Work in Britain; A.Felstead, D.Gallie & F.Green.- Lifelong Learning and Workplace Relations: Singing from the Same Hymn Sheet, Worshipping Different Gods?; G.Symon.- Skill and Renewal of Labour: The Classical Wage-Earner Model and Left Productivism in Australia; J.Buchanan, I.Watson & C.Briggs.- The Political Economy of Skill: A Theoretical Approach to Developing a High Skills Strategy in the UK; C.Lloyd & J.Payne.- 'Old Nurses with New Qualifications are Best': Competing Ideas about the Skills that Matter in Nursing in Estonia, France, Germany and the UK; A.Brown & S.Kirpal.- Skill Trends Under Capitalism and the Socialisation of Production; P.S.Adler.- Author Index.- Subject Index.
