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The Fifth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA V) was organised by the UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE) in cooperation with UNEVOC and held in Hamburg, Germany, from 14-18 July 1997. The conference aimed to emphasise the importance of adult learning and to encourage international commitment to adult and continuing education in the perspective of lifelong learning. This report presents the contributions to theme five entitled 'Adult learning and the changing world of work'. The three sessions dealt with: the changes in the world of work that impact on adult education and training; the implications for adult education programs of the changing world of work; and policy and social implications of the changing world of work. The following papers were presented: Discussion and debate on the issues of theme five / R. Barry Hobart; Position paper on the galaxy of issues relating to theme five / R. Barry Hobart; ICFTU: what are the most significant changes in the world of work? / Renate Peltzer; The world of work and adult learning: changes, impacts and prospects / B. W. Kerre; Changes in the world of work and their impact on adult education and training in Jamaica (a developing economy) / Lurliene Miller; Training for employability / Maria A. Ducci; Continuing training in the transition process in Central and Eastern Europe and in the New Independent States / Hans Konrad Koch; Learn to undertake / Felix Cadena Barquin; Special impacts on developing and transition economies / David H. Fretwell; Adult education and jobs, or sustainable livelihoods? / John Lawrence; Policy directions for reforming vocational and technical education in Korea / Ikhyun Shin; Changes in the world of work and their implications for formal TVET / R. Barry Hobart; Adult learning and vocational training in the informal sector in developing countries / Committee on Educational Research in Co-operation with Third World Countries within the German Educational Research Association; Policy and social implications of the changing world of work: the Australian experience / Tony Greer; Adult education - instrument for democratisation and empowerment / Helga Foster; Political economy, adult education and exclusion / Ettore Gelpi. Appendices contain information about the conference program, the UNESCO Institute of Education follow-up to CONFINTEA V: plan of action, UNESCO/UNEVOC, and the advisory committee and contributors. Individual papers are indexed from TD/INT 59.66 to TD/INT 59.81.