Work, economic restructuring and social regulation -- The labour market outlook and the outlook for labour market analysis -- Towards the transnational company?: the global structure and organisation of multinational firms -- Fragments of industry and employment: contract service work and the shift towards precarious employment -- The social order of the ship in a globalised labour market for seafarers -- The social constitution of labour markets: why skills cannot be commodities -- Skill, gender and the quality of employment -- Segmentation and inequality in the nursing workforce: re-evaluating the evaluation of skills -- Work organisation, skills development and utilisation of engineers: a British-Japanese comparison -- Checking out and cashing up: the prospects and paradoxes of regulating part-time work in Europe -- The trailing wife: a declining breed?: careers, geographical mobility and household conflict in Britain 1970-89 -- Women and men managers: careers and equal opportunities.