Technology training: transferring control to the learner (M. Parker, G. Saganski). Technical change activities: an integrative approach to operators' skills development and technical change (P. Friedrich). Robotics design for pharmaceutical processing: a human perspective (H. Trechsel). Standing on the edge: engineering students grapple with skill-based automation (S. Kuhn, C. Richardson). Automation and restructuring: how industrial relations affects change in the Wisconsin metal working industry (N. Harvey). On the design of skill supporting computer-aided technologies (P.T. Kidd). An approach to work design and computer support for concurrent maintenance and quality control in manufacturing industries (U. Sandberg, K. Franzen). Designing integrated production systems (C. Everaere, C. Mahieu). Considering human factors in the design of automated manufacturing systems (T. Martin). The role of socio-technical systems engineering in implementing office automation and information technologies (B.S. Caldwell). Total quality management and skills-based automation (F. Emspak). Concurrent engineering in the automotive industry: prospects for worker participation (C.J. Haddad). Electronic performance monitoring: implications for work design (J. Lund). Utilization of human skills and cultural benefits in an organizational change (J. Kiviniitty, T. Alasoini). Work reorganization, industrial relations and vocational training: the Milwaukee-Waukesha training partnership (E. Parker). An anti-union corporate culture and cell manufacturing (K. Knauss, M.H. Matuszak). The role of group production, rational automation and ergonomics for work humanization in developing countries (E. Oliva-Lopez). Skill formation under adversarial industrial relations and weak unions: the cases of the American and French machine tool industries during the 1980s (B. Tidjani).