features of the foresight methods are being used in some labour policy making experiences. Case studies developed in Portugal … applied to the European project WORKS on the work organisation re-structuring in the knowledge society, and on the work design …

(Futur) and on the automotive sector in Portugal (WorTiS). …

At the last National Conference of Industrial Sociology in Portugal (in March 1999) was presented a paper on the topic …. Thus, is today possible to make a first balance of the application in Portugal of a type of foresight analysis exercise …: the Delphi method. After some of the uses of this method in Portugal on the fisheries socio-economical system and on the …

developments. In Portugal, the influence of the industrial change is produced in a top-down way; with (in some cases) an ex post …