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: 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 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 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 21st 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: Theorising 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 IT 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, 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: Terence Hogarth and Lynn Gambin: Who Pays for Skills? Differing perspectives on who should pay and why
32: Ewart Keep: Financial Constraints and Policy Implications
