Empirical studies increasingly reflect the importance of service work in the economy. This article analyses the implications of this evolution for theories of work and employment. It critically reviews some key notions that are taken for granted in the research literature on service work and...

Fortune called Asea Brown Boveri, the giant multinational corporation created in 1987, "the most successful cross-border merger since Royal Dutch linked up with Britain's Shell in 1907." The coming together of two longtime national champions in the electrotechnical industry, Sweden's ASEA and...

In view of current changes in the sphere of production and in the nature of work, there is no doubt of the necessity for individual and public investments in human capital formation. But starting from this premise, the paper stresses the need to consider both the formation and the use of...