Machine generated contents note: 1. The significance of workplace learning for a 'learning society' -- Karen Evans and Helen Rainbird -- 2. Learning careers: conceptualizing lifelong work-based learning -- Phil Hodkinson and Martin Bloomer -- 3. Contrasting approaches to the role of qualifications in the promotion of lifelong learning -- Michael Young -- 4. The interaction between qualifications and work-based learning -- Michael Eraut -- 5. The challenges of'making learning visible': problems and issues in recognizing tacit skills and key competences -- Karen Evans -- 6. Developing pedagogies for the contemporary workplace -- Alison Fuller and Lorna Unwin -- 7. An approach to learning at, for and through the workplace: a trade union case study -- Jim Sutherland -- 8. Education and training for small and medium-sized enterprises -- Peter Senker -- 9. The dynamics of workplace learning: the role of work organizations -- David Ashton -- 10. Putting skills in their place: the regional pattern of work skills in Britain -- Alan Felstead -- 11. Policy interventions for a vibrant work-based route - or when policy hits reality's fan (again) -- Ewart Keep andJonathan Payne -- 12. No rights, just responsibilities: individual demand for continuing training -- Helen Rainbird -- 13. Six challenges for the future -- Working to Learn Group: Ewart Keep, Helen Rainbird, Karen Evans, -- Lorna Unwin, Phil Hodkinson and Peter Senker.