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Employment is changing. Many organisations are downsizing. The notion of a lifelong career in one profession is seriously challenged. Employability now means an awareness of the changing world of work, responsibility for your own career and personal development, managing your relationship with work and taking control of lifelong learning needs, the ability to read the market for work opportunities, perhaps in areas not previously considered. The future in which we will be operating is likely to be “Me & Co.” in a future which will see us increasingly responsible for our work, career planning and development. Career planning is about getting clear about what you want in your life, your knowledge, skills, abilities and your values, aspirations, wants, needs, dreams, personal style. It involves self‐analysis and self‐reflection, preferably with the involvement of someone else who can help you. Some people are strategists who are on a career path and very clear about what they want, others want a quick fix, others want a methodical step‐by‐step process, and others want to ponder their options. These preferences can be related to personal style. Some people have not yet caught up with the realities of the 1990s, let alone being prepared for the millennium. Information professionals are in a privileged position to have maximum flexibility in their careers. Reference librarians have highly‐marketable skills.

Presents 35 abstracts from the 2001 Employment Research Unit Annual conference held at Cardiff Business School in September 2001. Attempts to explore the theme of changing politics of employment relations beyond and within the nation state, against a background of concern in the developed economies at the erosion of relatively advanced conditions of work and social welfare through increasing competition and international agitation for more effective global labour standards. Divides this concept into two areas, addressing the erosion of employment standards through processes of restructuring and examining attempts by governments, trade unions and agencies to re‐create effective systems of regulation. Gives case examples from areas such as India, Wales, London, Ireland, South Africa, Europe and Japan. Covers subjects such as the Disability Discrimination Act, minimum wage, training, contract workers and managing change.

Societal problems have impacted the northeast of the USA for various generations. This paper aims to analyse various sustainability aspects in the Hudson River watershed of New York by highlighting a temporal progression from environmental sustainability at the watershed level in the 1970s to growing concerns with more localized cross-border social and cultural sustainability in recent decades. We discuss an engagement with the Rapp Road Historic District and a documentary screening series as potential ways to eliminate racism and embrace diversity.

The research was based on fieldwork and classroom teaching conducted mostly since summer 2014. It included mixed methods combining document analysis and reviews with the examination of case studies, and the assessment of public policy priorities.

Formal training has to be combined with a substantial dose of realism, humility and motivation to recognize that what the authors teach and research in the community matters. Future learning experiences within a place-based education paradigm could include: Having students help devise urban rehabilitation strategies whilst suggesting integrative measures with the surrounding built and natural environments; students could also help improve public spaces in the neighbourhood; and finally, they could also help to strengthen the cultural identity of the district by augmenting urban design features endogenous to the African American community.

Opportunities could be further augmented with service-learning projects and programmes, internships and even full-time jobs for recent graduates in local community development organizations.

The study served to raise the community’s awareness of its own natural, ecological and human assets, and to create place-based real-world opportunities for students and faculty in environmental and cultural sustainability studies.

Environmental sustainability is discussed with the creation of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area, whilst the public engagement with the Rapp Road Historic Association in the Capital Region of upstate New York, the identification of an emerging creative cluster in the Berkshires-Hudson region, and a documentary and discussion series on striving for diverse cities serve to demonstrate current concerns with social and cultural sustainability.