Patricia Leighton is Professor Emeritus, University of South Wales and a Professor at Ipag Business School, France. She is an employment lawyer with wide research experience at national and international levels, is the author of many books and reports and runs her own training and consultancy business for HRM practitioners.Tui McKeown is an Associate Professor in the Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia. Her research and publications span both the academic and practitioner space focusing on an active examination of the self employment and small business in the changing world of work.

• 1. Setting the Scene: Dark Forebodings 2. Voices from the Past 3. Gameplayers and Stakeholders 4. Fragmentation, Inequalities and Tensions: How are Organisations Responding? 5. Skills, Training and Development: Opportunities or Crisis? 6. Workeing Well? The Importance of Health and Wellbeing at Work 7. Regulating Employment Relationships 8. 'So what to do?'

Patricia Leighton is Professor Emeritus, University of South Wales and a Professor at Ipag Business School, France. She is an employment lawyer with wide research experience at national and international levels, is the author of many books and reports and runs her own training and consultancy business for HRM practitioners.Tui McKeown is an Associate Professor in the Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia. Her research and publications span both the academic and practitioner space focusing on an active examination of the self employment and small business in the changing world of work.

• 1. Setting the Scene: Dark Forebodings 2. Voices from the Past 3. Gameplayers and Stakeholders 4. Fragmentation, Inequalities and Tensions: How are Organisations Responding? 5. Skills, Training and Development: Opportunities or Crisis? 6. Workeing Well? The Importance of Health and Wellbeing at Work 7. Regulating Employment Relationships 8. 'So what to do?'

Patricia Leighton is Professor Emeritus, University of South Wales and a Professor at Ipag Business School, France. She is an employment lawyer with wide research experience at national and international levels, is the author of many books and reports and runs her own training and consultancy business for HRM practitioners.Tui McKeown is an Associate Professor in the Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia. Her research and publications span both the academic and practitioner space focusing on an active examination of the self employment and small business in the changing world of work.

• 1. Setting the Scene: Dark Forebodings 2. Voices from the Past 3. Gameplayers and Stakeholders 4. Fragmentation, Inequalities and Tensions: How are Organisations Responding? 5. Skills, Training and Development: Opportunities or Crisis? 6. Workeing Well? The Importance of Health and Wellbeing at Work 7. Regulating Employment Relationships 8. 'So what to do?'