Introduction
John Buchanan, David Finegold, Ken Mayhew, and Chris Warhurst: Skills and Training: Multiple Targets, Shifting Terrain
Section I: Concepts, Definitions, and Measurements of Skill
1: Jane Bryson: Disciplinary Perspectives on Skill
2: Cathie Jo Martin: Skill Builders and the Evolution of National Vocational Training Systems
3: Jonathan Payne: The Changing Meaning of Skill: Still Contested, Still Important
4: Chris Warhurst, Chris Tilly, and Mary Gatta: A New Social Construction of Skill
5: Michael J. Handel: Measuring Job Content: Skills, Technology, and Management Practices
6: Gordon Stanley: Accreditation and Assessment in Vocational Education and Training
Section II: Education, Training, and the Development of Workforce Skills
7: Paul Dalziel: Education and Qualifications as Skills
8: John Polesel: Pre-Employment Skill Formation in Australia and Germany
9: Robert I. Lerman: Skill Development in Middle-Level Occupations: The Role of Apprenticeship Training
10: Martin Humburg and Rolf Van der Velden: What is Expected of Higher Education Graduates in the Twenty-First Century?
11: Lorna Unwin: Employer-Led In-Work Training and Skill Formation: The Challenges of Multi-Varied and Contingent Phenomena
12: Mark Stuart and Tony Huzzard: Unions, the Skills Agenda, and Workforce Development
13: Gunter Schmid: A Working Lifetime of Skill and Training Needs
Section III: Skills Demand and Deployment
14: David W. Livingston: Skill Under-utilization
15: David Ashton, Caroline Lloyd, and Chris Warhurst: Business Strategies and Skills
16: Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, and Francis Green: Measuring Skills Stock, Job Skills, and Skills Mismatch
Section IV: Skill Outcomes
17: Craig Holmes: The Individual Benefits of Investing in Skills
18: Irena Grugulis, Craig Holmes, and Ken Mayhew: The Economic and Social Benefits of Skills
Section V: Differing Skill Systems: The Levels of Determination
19: Hugh Lauder, Phillip Brown, and David Ashton: Theorizing Skill Formation in the Global Economy
20: Gerhard Bosch: Different National Skill Systems
21: John Buchanan, Pauline Anderson, and Gail Power: Skill Ecosystems
22: Alice Lam and David Marsden: Employment Systems, Skills, and Knowledge
Section VI: Differing Skill Systems: The Dynamics of Development in a Global Economy
23: Caroline Smith: Skill Demands and Developments in the Advanced Economies
24: Johnny Sung and Arwen Raddon: Approaches to Skills in the Asian Developmental States
25: Mingwei Liu and David Finegold: Emerging Economic Powers: The Transformation of the Skills Systems in China and India
Section VII: Current Challenges
26: Stuart W. Elliott: Projecting the Impact of Information Technology on Work and Skills in the 2030s
27: James Wickham: International Skill Flows and Migration
28: Mari Sako: Professional Skills: Impact of Comparative Political Economy
29: Wendy Loretto, Chris Phillipson, and Sarah Vickerstaff: Skills and Training for the Older Population: Training the New Work Generation
30: Leesa Wheelahan: Rethinking Skills Development: Moving Beyond Competency-Based Training
31: Lynn Gambin and Terence Hogarth: Who Pays for Skills? Differing Perspectives on Who Should Pay and Why
32: Ewart Keep: Current Challenges: Policy Lessons and Implications
