The Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 November 2011
- ISBN 9780199599431
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 240x162x27 mm
- Weight 756 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The book examines skill systems and vocational training in a number of coordinated market economies, analysing historical origins and contemporary developments. As well as case studies on Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Denmark, it also contains comparative chapters exploring reactions to common challenges.
MoreLong 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.
This volume is the major publication in the vocational training literature since Thelen's seminal How Institutions Evolve. Studies of the main 'collective actor' systems - Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, and the Netherlands - bring the reader right up-to-date while also showing the historical evolution of the systems. In a most impressive introductory chapter, Busemeyer and Trampusch build an analytic political economic model to account for the different patterns of skill formation systems in the advanced world. And in sparkling country and comparative chapters (including by Iversen, Martin, Streeck, and Thelen) the book integrates a depth of empirical knowledge with sophisticated modern political economy. This book is a formidable achievement.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Foreword
Introduction
Introduction: The Comparative Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation
Section I: Country Studies
Vocational Training and the Origins of Coordination: Specific Skills and the Politics of Collective Action
Institutional Change in German Vocational Training: From Collectivism towards Segmentalism
The Development of the Vocational Training System in the Netherlands
Educational Policy Actors as Stakeholders in the Development of the Collective Skills System: The Case of Switzerland
Austrian Corporatism and Institutional Change in the Relationship between Apprenticeship Training and School-Based VET
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
Collective Skill Systems, Wage Bargaining, and Labor Market Stratification
The Links between Vocational Training and Higher Education in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany
Gendered Consequences of Vocational Training
Europeanization and the Varying Responses in Collective Skill Systems
Conclusion
Skills and Politics: General and Specific
