This issue presents six new articles dealing with central issues in working life research in the Nordic countries. The articles all center around questions related to (the lack of) competencies and skills that are in demand in organizations and in relation to the labor market in general. They illuminate how skills – and skills gaps – are produced in complex dynamics of agency and structure, action and discourse, reflexive and deliberative subjective processes, and objective restraints, how labor market policies and organizational regulations affect working life, and how these policies in turn are counteracted. When I read the six articles, I was struck by the contradictory and often paradoxical nature of working life. The nuanced empirical studies of the six articles in this issue brings this out in fascinating detail. Let me just walk readers through the themes discussed (...)

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NJWLS 2019-2简介

本期介绍了六篇有关北欧国家工作生活研究中的核心问题的新文章。文章全部围绕与组织中以及总体上与劳动力市场有关的（缺乏）能力和技能相关的问题。它们阐明了在机构和结构，行动和话语，反思性和协商性主观过程以及客观约束的复杂动态中，如何产生技能和技能差距，以及劳动力市场政策和组织法规如何影响工作生活，以及这些政策又如何被抵消。当我阅读这六篇文章时，我为工作生活的矛盾性和常常自相矛盾的性质所震惊。本期对六篇文章的细致经验研究使这一点引人入胜。