INTRODUCTION 1. Skills Policy as a Field of Study 2. The Political Economy of Skill – Incremental State PART I: THE INTERVENTIONIST STATE (1939-1979) 3. Skills Planning in the Crisis of War 4. Legacy of 1944 – Turf Battles and Technology 5. The Golden Era of Industrial Training PART II: LAISSEZ-FAIRE STATE (1980-1988) 6. Rolling back the Frontiers of the Training State? 7. Employer Voluntarism – Who Pays? PART III: LOCALISM & DEVOLVED STATES (1989-2010) 8. The Rise and Fall of TECs 9.