The political economy of collective skill formation
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The political economy of collective skill formation
Oxford University Press, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Education, skill formation, and training continue to be important areas of consideration for both public policy and research. This book examines the particular types of vocational training known as collective skill formation systems, whereby the training (often firm-based apprenticeships) is collectively organized by businesses and unions with state support and cooperation in execution, finance, and monitoring.
With contributions from leading academics, this book is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of the varying historical origins of, and recent developments in, vocational training systems, offering in-depth studies on coordinated market economies, namely Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Denmark. It also contains comparative chapters that analyse how these countries react to common challenges such as deindustrialization, labour market stratification, academic drift,
gender inequalities, and Europeanization.
Whereas previous research has focused on the differences between various kinds of skill regimes, this book focuses on explaining institutional variety within the group of collective skill formation systems. The development of skill formation systems is regarded as a dynamic political process, dependent on the outcome of various political struggles regarding such matters as institutional design and transformations during critical junctures in historical development.
Table of Contents
- FOREWORD
- Foreword
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Introduction: The Comparative Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation
- SECTION I: COUNTRY STUDIES
- 2. Vocational Training and the Origins of Coordination: Specific Skills and the Politics of Collective Action
- 3. Institutional Change in German Vocational Training: From Collectivism towards Segmentalism
- 4. The Development of the Vocational Training System in the Netherlands
- 5. Educational Policy Actors as Stakeholders in the Development of the Collective Skills System: The Case of Switzerland
- 6. Austrian Corporatism and Institutional Change in the Relationship between Apprenticeship Training and School-Based VET
- 7. The Social Partners and the Social Democratic Party in the Continuation of a Collective Skill System in Denmark
- SECTION II: CROSSCUTTING TOPICS AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES
- 8. Collective Skill Systems, Wage Bargaining, and Labor Market Stratification
- 9. The Links between Vocational Training and Higher Education in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany
- 10. Gendered Consequences of Vocational Training
- 11. Europeanization and the Varying Responses in Collective Skill Systems
- CONCLUSION
- 12. Skills and Politics: General and Specific
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