This publication is part of the study materials for the one-semester distance education unit, Human Resource Development, in the Open Campus Program at Deakin University (Australia). It contains three essays that explore the approaches to learning currently modeled within industry. "Training for Women" (Kathy MacDermott) presents the rhetoric, ideology, and institutions of industry training in terms of the way in which they position women in the work force. Having considered where patterns are forming and what shape those patterns appear to be taking, the paper looks at possible strategic responses at the level of general practice and at a workplace-specific level. "Japanese and American Management Models: New Paradigms in Worker Control" (Suzanne Simon) looks at the impact that acceptance of the ideology of global economy is having on work relations in Australia, particularly through the importation of Japanese and American management paradigms, in particular total quality management and its variations. "'It's a Job': Learning in a Public Service Office" (Steve Wright) presents some initial responses to a small ethnographic study of a government office. It focuses on what work-related learning means to office and factory workers and what they learn in the workplace and the labor market. (YLB)