MICHAEL WHITE founded the Employment Studies Group at the Policy Studies Institute, University of Westminster, where he is now Emeritus Fellow. He is author of Against Unemployment (1991) and co-author of Restructuring the Employment Relationship (1998). STEPHEN HILL has been Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London since 2002. Before that he was Deputy Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published a number of books on social theory and the sociology of employment and is co-author of The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology (

• Profiling Change at Work Flexible Labour at its Limit? Intelligent Flexibility Resuscitating Careers Shrinking the Work-Space Extending Management Control Lowering the Sexual Barriers Developing Diversity Which Strategies? Management versus Regulation? Interpreting the Trends

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