Table of Contents:
  • Technology and work : a social and historical overview of U.S. industrialization / Stephen Meyer
  • Work skill in historical perspective / Robert Asher
  • Technological change, skill requirements, and education : the case for uncertainty / Kenneth I. Spenner
  • Vocational education : meeting manpower needs and providing student opportunities / Chet Rzonca, Douglas Gustafson, and Sandra Boutelle
  • Temporary work and labor market detachment : new mechanisms and new opportunities / Donald Mayall
  • Skills shortage or management shortage? / Ruy A. Teixeira and Lawrence Mishel
  • A sociological commentary on Workforce 2000 / Nancy DiTomaso and Judith J. Friedman
  • Potential effects of increasing the number of women in the scientific and technological workforce / Sue V. Rosser
  • The worker as active subject : enlivening the "new sociology of work" / Randy Hodson
  • Employers, employees, and work : a research program / Arne L. Kalleberg and Richard C. Rockwell.