This book explores the powerful global discourse of employability in labour markets and how it is expressed in local worklife practice. This is key to understanding contemporary changes in the workings of labour markets and highlights changes in ideas regarding responsibility and learning. The book shows how this discourse works, by relating empirical case studies in different sectors of wider policy aims, ideological shifts, and the discursive influences of powerful organizations, such as the EU, OECD and transnational corporations. The cases highlight the dynamics of labour market change across national boundaries and how employees in local contexts learn to deal with new expectations. INDICE -Learning to be Employable;C.Garsten & K.Jacobsson -The Individualization of Labour;M.Allvin -A European Politics for Employability; K.Jacobsson -Competition versus Regulation; L. Faurbaek -Lifelong Learning; L.Svensson Constructing the Competent Individual; T. Huzzard Do it Yourself; R.Thedvall Be a Gumby; C.Garsten Team Working and Emotional Labour in Call Centres; A.Lindgren & P.Sederblad Work as an Arena for Disciplining Mind, Body and Emotions; M.Oudhuis Time for Competence?; F.Augustsson & A.Sandberg Expertise and Employability in Management Consulting; S. Furusten Competing for Employability; L.Wedlin Conclusion; C.Garsten & K.Jacobsson