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Introduction to the papers / Michael White -- Flexibility or polarisation? / Eithne McLaughlin -- Is there an underclass? The lessons from America / John Macnicol -- Recent developments in the macroeconomics of the UK labour market / Paul Warren -- Justifying ð̀orkfare': the historical context of the debate / Alan Deacon -- The benefit fault line / Alan Marsh -- Trends in job loss and recruitment in Britain, 1979-1991 / Joan Payne and Clive Payne -- Part-time work and employment regulation : Britain and France in the context of Europe / Jacqueline O'Reilly -- Implications of the changing spatial incidence of the long-term unemployed for the planning of programme provision and training / Chris Hasluck and Anne Green -- Unemployment in Northern Ireland : causes, characterisiticsand cures / David Armstrong -- Employment in the UK defence industry : structural change or market adjustment? / Derek Braddon, Paul Dowdall and Adrian Kendry -- Job search effort and motivation in unemployment / Michael White, ... [et al.] -- The employment commitment of unemployed people / Duncan Gallie, ... [et al.] -- Countering the labour market disadvantage of disability / Mary Dalgleish -- Just a load of Dosser? Homeless people and employment / Hilary Metcalf

If employees are asked to extend their working lives, equity requires that their conditions of work should be improved or at least maintained. This article argues that employees have in the past received relatively favourable treatment from employers in their later careers, consequent on the long-term employment relationship that employers maintain for motivational purposes. But changes in costs, competition and technologies are likely to have affected motivational policy, leading employers to renege on the implicit bargain with older employees. The analysis provides strong evidence of declining organizational commitment, consistent with the proposed theory.

The clinical management of infants born with disabilities and at the cusp of viability has been a focus of attention in recent years because of medical advances as well as legislative activity. This article looks at the history, in terms of law and medical tradition, of this issue as well as how healthcare providers have been and could be affected.