Managed Professionals is a source book on the negotiated terms of faculty work and a
sociological analysis of the restructuring of faculty as a professional workforce. Based on a …

Using data from a 1994 survey of US establishments, the authors investigate how the
incidence, content, and extent of employer-provided training were linked to workplace …

Drawing on ILM, HRM, and new structuralist perspectives, we examine how organizational-
based factors influence the intensity of two types of contingent worker use, fixed-duration …

Previous analyses of employee participation in company-provided job training programs,
using cross-sectional data on cumulative incidence levels, found either that men receive …

This article explores the allocation and nature of educational experiences throughoutadult
life. The authors are especially concerned with the opportunities and barriersassociated with …

Few studies examine the pathways that lead from work to education at midlife. We test a
mobility model on linked October Supplements of the Current Population Surveys (1989 …

This study examines how work pathways intersect with the pursuit of education
andvocational training at midlife. The authors link two waves of the National Survey …

This paper presents two policy issues related to the topic of workforce preparation. While
changes in the structures and requirement of jobs in the postwar economy have created a …

It has been said that training will sustain the economic life of this country in the 21$\sp {\rm
st} $ century (Shaw, 1995). Training has been described as focusing on the" design and …

This dissertation draws on theories from organizational analysis, economics, and the
sociology of labor markets to examine the factors that facilitate or impede employers' use of …