New paradigms of work organisation espousing a radical break in production systems assert a natural identity between advanced manufacturing and utilisation of skilled labour. Using findings from a comparative project on the commercial vehicle industry in Sweden, Austria and the UK, the paper...

This article examines companies' and public sector organisations' external restructuring processes, with consideration of emerging or lengthening value chains and network relationships in the service sector Focusing on two business functions - software development in the IT industry and IT...

1. Introduction / Christoph Hermann and Jorg Flecker -- 2. The process of liberalisation, privatisation and marketisation / Christoph Hermann and Koen Verhoest -- 3. Concentration and disintegration : company responses in the electricity sector and consequences for employment / Christoph Hermann...

In this long-awaited book, Ursula Huws brings together the results of decades of prescient research on labour market transformation to provide an authoritative overview of the impacts of technological, economic, social and political change on working life in the 21stcentury. Placing current...

This policy brief highlights findings on a specific topic from Eurofound's European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) that is of particular interest from a policy perspective. It brings results of the analysis of these data together with evidence from other Eurofound projects to formulate a number...

The economic crisis has severely damaged the employment prospects of young people in Europe, and their employment rate is now at the lowest level ever. To better capture the extent of economic inactivity among the young, the concept of NEET - not in employment, education or training - has been...