The workplace is an important site for learning in today's society. This book examines the changing nature of the work and effect that this has on the skill and knowledge requirements of individuals, its implications for employment, and ways in which these changing requirements can be met.

The workplace is a crucially important site for learning in today's learning society. This is reflected in the frequent calls for higher levels of skills within the workforce made by management experts, academics, policy makers and by employers themselves

• The significance of workplace learning for a "learning society", Karen Evans and Helen Rainbird
• Learning careers
• conceptualising lifelong work
• based learning, Phil Hodkinson and Martin Bloomer
• Contrasting approaches to the role of qualificati