This paper reviews change and continuity in social policy up to summer 2011, contrasting the liberal collectivist approach of New Labour with the reinforced neoliberalism of the coalition government. Given the ongoing uncertainty of economic conditions and the obvious difficulty of forecasting...

Evidence of shifts towards atomized relations in the labor market appears to conflict with economic theories of the internal labor market. The problem, however, lies not with the irrelevance of internal labor market systems and broader institutional structures but rather with the...

The blurring of organisational boundaries associated with 'networks' of organisations suggests the need to reconsider how work and employment are shaped by shifting inter-capital relations. Traditional theories of the internalised employment relationship understate its inter-relationship with...

Information from interviews with manufacturing, private service and public service establishments is used to consider how working-time requirements are determined and the relationship between these requirements and occupational segregation by gender. Both men and women are found to be involved...