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This colloquium paper examines some of the constructions of flexibility which are deployed by a sample interviewees in relation to the labour market, and in particular notions of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ flexibility. It looks at the past, the present and the future in relation to flexibility in the labour market. It presents elements from the texts of interviews with staff of further education institutions. While this paper focuses on narratives of the labour market, it is suggested that wider analyses of the interview texts indicatesthat notions of good and bad flexibility may also be meaningful in other contexts such as control over the curriculum and working hours.