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Training in the Swedish labour market started on a small scale just after the Second World War and increased considerably during the 1958 recession. Since the second half of the 60s, such training activities again expanded rapidly, with the number of trainees who completed their training growing from 40,000 in the fiscal year 1964/65 to 143,000 during 1972/73. After a fall in trainee numbers came an even sharper rise, when training subsidies were extensively allocated to corporations in an attempt to stem the tide of redundancies (245,000 trained during 1977/78). Subsequently, the overall trend was downwards, with 128,313 trained in 1983/84.

In January 1986 employment training for adults in Sweden was reorganised, when all the vocational training centres were grouped into a fully autonomous government institution aimed at more flexibility in meeting labour market needs, the optimal use of resources and extensive decentralisation. The effects of the reorganisation are assessed from the point of view of the organisation (AMU) itself, the trainees, the trainers, the trade unions and the employers. The possible advantages of the new system are presented.

Presents the result of a study that was made within the framework of CEDEFOP′s information network in a transnational dossier on training and environment in Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany and The Netherlands. The national synopsis on Belgium traces down in a systematic and structural way to what degree environment training supply exists and is developed. For every educational level, every large training operator and various training systems Other aspects dealt with, are the organizational framework, research concerning environmental training and the European dimension.

Examines environmental protection as a training concept which is receiving increasing attention in all fields of the education system. Discusses systems employed in the German education system and suggests that all young people should be allowed to develop ethical standards as an orientation for their future lives. Proposes that environmental protection should become part of vocational training. Suggests that this is however a slow and labourious process and offers recommendations for the promotion of vocational environmental training.

In a country such as Belgium, social dialogue – in the shape of negotiations between social partners–constitutes the basis of the country′s social structure. In general, vocational training is a topic in which a consensus among social partners is reached easily. Describes the different roles of the private sector in the Belgian‐Flemish community at national, regional, local and sectoral level, how the private sector acts as a training partner, as a training organizer, and its position as a training consumer and as a training provider. Illustrates the structures of the consensus model and the role of the private sector with regard to training.

This chapter provides an extensive review of literature on the interaction between and interdependence of informal and formal working practices in various workplace settings. The aim of the chapter is to elucidate the organisational, managerial, human relations and social factors that give rise to informal work practices and strategies, on the shop-floor not only at workers and work group levels but also at supervisory and managerial levels. This chapter helps the reader to understand the informal work practice of making a plan (planisa) in a deep-level mining workplace.

Film provides an alternative medium for assessing our interpretations of cultural icons. This selective list looks at the film and video sources for information on and interpretations of the life of Woody Guthrie.

The purpose of this study is to analyse the views stock market actors have on corporate communication of corporate social responsibility (CSR) information grounded on legitimacy and stakeholder theory. Recent findings suggest that management teams experience an increased interest and demand for CSR information from the actors on the stock market and that this underlie a focus shift. This is quite astonishing considering that the interest from just stock market actors in CSR information always has been meagre. However, due to lack of recent studies, it has not been confirmed that de facto there has been a trend shift among stock market actors towards an increased interest in CSR information.

The data are derived from in-depth semi-structured interviews with financial analysts at international investment banks.

The study confirms that the focus shift is not at all driven by the actors in the stock market. Quite the opposite. They express mistrust towards this information and a continued meagre interest in it.

Findings from the study suggest the need for more research on how different stakeholders view CSR information. It also opens up for discussions on regulations concerning CSR information.

The findings imply that management teams might have deluded themselves and become victim to what Christensen and Cheney (2000) refer to as self-seduces, i.e. seeing things that are not really there. The findings might also indicate an enlargement of the stakeholder perspective. Thus, a subtle shift from a bilateral relationship (company – shareholders) towards a multilateral set of relationships (company – stakeholders) camouflaged under the justification from management teams that the increased interest comes from the stock market.

The study contributes to the scarce research on how actors in the stock market view CSR. The findings are of interest and relevance to the business and academic communities in their ongoing quest of unravelling the core of CSR and business ethics.

Three questions are explored regarding ethnozoology’s place in sociology. First, why has sociology been slow to explore this subject or to give it much credibility? Resistance by sociologists to ethnozoology is strikingly ironic, given the discipline’s willingness in recent years to consider the plight of virtually every human minority. Although androcentric and conservative biases no doubt are part of this resistance, it is suggested that significant resistance comes from sociologists involved in the study of various oppressed groups. Second, what has sociology done to study ethnozoology so far? Acritique is made of prior attempts to categorize research in this area along topical lines. Instead, the value of theoretically organizing this literature is advocated. Finally, how should sociology proceed with ethnozoological research? An argument is made for increasing applied research. Two exemplars are provided, including the trend by police to racially profile urban pit‐bull owners and the growth of uneasiness among veterinary students who resist the traditional use of animals as educational tools.