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This publication reports on a study of the changing nature of work in the process manufacturing industry in Australia. The main purpose of the study was to examine how the nature of work has changed in these industries, how these changes have affected operative-level workers and how the vocational education and training (VET) system has responded to and should respond to these changes. The report examines the changing political philosophies and especially the enterprise-based industrial relations system that has enabled much of the job redesign that the study discusses. It also considers some of the recent social theory on the nature of work that might have influenced the way changes have been implemented.