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This is the first of two volumes of readings. Volume I is organised around the theme of the social, political and economic contexts of education and training. The papers are intended to extend and deepen the debates about post-compulsory education and training by placing them within the broader context of economic and employment policy, both in the UK and internationally. The papers and the authors are: Introduction / Geoff Esland and John Ahier; The changing nature of work / Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland; Education, globalization and economic development / Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder; The great work dilemma: education, employment and wages in the new global economy / Martin Carnoy; The new knowledge work / Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio; Jobs and people / John Grieve Smith; Evaluating the assumptions that underlie training policy / Ewart Keep and Ken Mayhew; Expanding employment / Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland; Managerializing organizational culture: refashioning the human resource in educational institutions / Geoff Esland, Karen Esland, Mike Murphy and Karen Yarrow; The University of Life plc: the 'industrialization' of higher education? / Richard Winter; Economic restructuring and unemployment: a crisis for masculinity? / Faith Robertson Elliot; Social change and labour market transitions / Andy Furlong and Fred Cartmel; Big pictures and fine detail: school work experience policy and the local labour market in the 1990s / John Ahier and Rob Moore. For individual entries see TD/INT 61.316 to TD/INT 61.328.