Edited by Chris Warhurst, Professor and Director of the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, Ken Mayhew, Emeritus Professor of Education and Economic Performance, University of Oxford, David Finegold, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University, and John Buchanan, Professor in the Research Development Unit, University of Sydney

Chris Warhurst PhD is Professor and Director of the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick in the UK, a Trustee of the Tavistock Institute in London and a Research Associate of the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) at Oxford University. He has published a number of books and articles on skills, including, with colleagues, The Skills that Matter (Palgrave, 2004) and Are Bad Jobs Inevitable? (Palgrave, 2012). He has been expert advisor on skills policy to the UK, Scottish and Australian Governments and an International Expert Adviser to the OECD's LEED programme.

Ken Mayhew is Emeritus Professor of Education and Economic Performance, at Oxford University, Emeritus Fellow in Economics at Pembroke College Oxford, Extraordinary Professor at Maastricht University and a member of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body. He was founding director of SKOPE, an ESRC research centre on skills, knowledge and organizational performance. He has published widely in labour economics and policy analysis, and advised many private and public sector organisations at home and abroad.

David Finegold is a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University and is the founding Chief Academic Officer for American Honors. He is a leading international expert on skill development systems and their relationship to the changing world of work and economic performance.

John Buchanan is Professor in the Research Development Unit at the University of Sydney Business School. Until recently his major research interest has been the demise of the classical wage-earner model of employment and the role of the state in nurturing new forms of multi-employer coordination in the labour market. Building on this he is devoting special attention to the evolution of the labour contract, the dynamics of workforce development and the relationship between work and health. He is especially interested in building cross disciplinary research teams to examine these issues. His most recent co-edited book is Inclusive Growth in Australia: Social Policy as Economic Investment (2013).

Pauline Anderson PhD is a Chancellor's Fellow at the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde
David Ashton is Emeritus Professor at Leicester University and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University
Gerhard Bosch is Director of the Institute for Work, Skills and Training (Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation) and full Professor of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Phillip Brown is a Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Jane Bryson is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations at Victoria University of Wellington
John Buchanan is Professor in the Research Development Unit at the University of Sydney Business School
Paul Dalziel PhD is Professor of Economics and Deputy Director of the Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit at Lincoln University
Stuart W. Elliott PhD is an analyst in the Directorate of Education and Skills at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Alan Felstead is Research Professor at Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
David Finegold is a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University and is the founding Chief Academic Officer for American Honors
Duncan Gallie is Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford
Lynn Gambin PhD is an economist based at the University of Warwick Institute for Employment Research
Mary Gatta PhD is a Senior Scholar at Wider Opportunities for Women in Washington DC
Francis Green is Professor of Work and Education Economics at the LLAKES Centre, Institute of Education
Irena Grugulis is Professor of Work and Skills at Leeds University Business School
Michel Handel is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University
Terence Hogarth is based at the University of Warwick Institute for Employment Research
Craig Holmes is a labour economist at Pembroke College at the Oxford University
Martin Humburg is a senior consultant at ICF International in Brussels
Tony Huzzard is Professor of Organisation Studies at the Department of Business Administration, Lund University
Ewart Keep PhD is Professor of Education, Training and Skills at the Department of Education, Oxford University
Alice Lam is Professor of Organisation Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London
Hugh Lauder is Professor of Education and Political Economy and Director of the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath
Robert I. Lerman PhD is an Institute Fellow at Urban Institute, Professor of Economics at American University, a Research Fellow at IZA in Bonn
Mingwei Liu PhD is Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University
D.W. Livingstone is Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work and Professor Emeritus at OISE/University of Toronto
Caroline Lloyd PhD is Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Wendy Loretto PhD is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the University of Edinburgh Business School
David Marsden is Professor of Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics, and a member of the Centre for Economic Performance
Cathy Jo Martin is Professor of Political Science at Boston University
Ken Mayhew is Emeritus Professor of Education and Economic Performance, at Oxford University
Jonathan Payne is Reader in Employment Studies in Leicester Business School at De Montfort University
Chris Phillipson is a professor and co-director of the Manchester Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Research on Ageing (MICRA)
John Polesel is Professor and Associate Dean International in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education in the University of Melbourne
Gail Power is currently Manager (Advisory, People and Organisations) in Ernst and Young's Sydney Office in Australia
Arwen Raddon PhD is Project Manager at Singapore's Institute of Technical Education
Mari Sako is Professor of Management Studies at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Günther Schmid is Emeritus Director at the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB)
Caroline Smith PhD is Deputy Chief Executive Officer, National Employment Services Association (Australia)
Gordon Stanley is Honorary Professor of Education at the University of Sydney
Mark Stuart is Montague Burton Professor of Employment Relations and Director of the Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change, University of Leeds
Johnny Sung PhD is Professor and Head of Centre for Skills, Performance and Productivity at the Institute for Adult Learning (IAL) in Singapore
Chris Tilly is Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California Los Angeles
Lorna Unwin PhD is Professor Emerita (Vocational Education) and Honorary Professor in the LLAKES Research Centre, UCL Institute of Education, University College London
Rolf van der Velden is professor at Maastricht University and director of the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA)
Sarah Vickerstaff PhD is Professor of Work and Employment and Head of the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent
Chris Warhurst PhD is Professor and Director of the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick
Leesa Wheelahan is an Associate Professor and the William G. Davis Chair of Community College Leadership at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto
James Wickham PhD is Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin in Ireland