In this issue, we present four articles that illuminate working life in the Nordic coun- tries.These articles span Little Girls Woven Pants a diverse area of work practices and accentuate different aspects of regulative mechanisms and policies that structure the unfolding of contemporary work in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark.The research examines the minute and subtle practices and narratives of human resource experts in Sweden that are active in organizational recruitment processes, and it explores pension schemes in Norwegian companies.In the articles, we learn about the temporary liminal spaces of professionals in Motor Armature Refacing Stick Finland, and we get a review of the literature on employer strategies for preventing mental health related work disabilities (.
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